V.C. Andrews

Quotes

• “Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back te...”
• “It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about t...”
• “And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of...”
• “Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the fro...”
• “Once I was in the cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn't as wonderful as the o...”
• “Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but tha...”
• “The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald gree...”
• “From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again go...”
• “I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everythi...”
• “What's doneis done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we'rewasting time, when already we've wasted e...”
• “Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly onCory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly cha...”
• “You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes y...”
• “You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what al...”
• “Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are...”
• “Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn't that I wanted it; it was that I was so used...”
• “Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces...”
• “God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, ea...”
• “-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older...”
• “Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make h...”
• “We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but ...”
• “All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was t...”
• “We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have liv...”
• “And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have roma...”
• “If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming,...”
• “That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and ...”
• “Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are...”
• “And grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real, so beloved, bec...”
• “I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest beca...”
• “In the dark, the little live Christmas tree, two feet tall, sparkled with tiny coloured lights, like the tears I saw gli...”
• “The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time foreverything. I figured my time for happiness was j...”
• “Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a ...”
• “We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma,...”
• “The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christop...”
• “We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until ju...”
• “I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing w...”
• “Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!”
• “Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.”
• “Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.”
• “And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.”
• “Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
• “I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.”
• “Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.”
• “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
• “You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel.”
• “Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.”
• “Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience”
• “For when Iwaltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.”
• “If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings”
• “Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon”
• “Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.”