V C Andrews Quotes

Chris, soap people are like
us-they seldom go outdoors. And when they do, we only hear about it,
never see it. They loll about in living rooms, bedrooms, sit in the
kitchens and sip coffee or stand up and drink martinis-but never, never
go outside before our eyes. And whenever something good happens,
whenever they think they're finally going to be happy, some catastrophe
comes along to dash their hopes. ~ V.C. Andrews

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down
again.
Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we are
doomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding
perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won't
be disappointed. ~ V.C. Andrews

Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart. ~ V.C. Andrews

The world belongs to those who know how to speak well, and fortunes are made by those who write well, ~ V.C. Andrews

I don't know if it's for the better, but I do know people aren't static. We all change from day to day. ~ V.C. Andrews

In the dark, the little live Christmas tree, two feet tall, sparkled with tiny coloured lights, like the tears I saw glistening in my brother's eyes. ~ V.C. Andrews

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time for
everything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waiting
for me. ~ V.C. Andrews

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough? ~ V.C. Andrews

The part that Sahsa moved into Alena's bedroom and slleps in Alena's bed and uses her belongings.But there is someone else who don't like the idea that someone is useing her sister's room and her stuff .So she tries to make sure that Sahsa never takes her sister's place and is jealous so she plans on making Sahsa'a Life A Living Hell. ~ V.C. Andrews

I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here. ~ V.C. Andrews

He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off. ~ V.C. Andrews

For everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination. v.c.andrews ~ V.C. Andrews

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings ~ V.C. Andrews

The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter. ~ V.C. Andrews

All you need do is say good-bye to yesterday's loves, and hello to the new. Look around and see who needs you most and you won't go wrong. Forget who needed you yesterday. ~ V.C. Andrews

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 if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did. ~ V.C. Andrews

Few dignitaries made speeches that Myra said were so full of soap that if we looked closely, we'd see bubbles coming out of their mouths. ~ V.C. Andrews

My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes. ~ V.C. Andrews

What if I am a curse?" "Then you're the prettiest and nicest curse I know. ~ V.C. Andrews

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. ~ V.C. Andrews

Even flicker of a memory about another girl he liked is static on your radio," she said. "Keep him tuned in only to you. ~ V.C. Andrews

I had a gift too; not the bright and shining coin that was Christopher's. It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish. ~ V.C. Andrews

To my lady Catherine,

I give you gold with a diamond you can barely see,

But the gem would be castle-sized if it expressed all I feel for thee.

I give you gold because it endures, and love like the eternal sea.

Only your brother, Christopher. ~ V.C. Andrews

After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding. ~ V.C. Andrews

I knew then he was blind when he looked at me. ~ V.C. Andrews

Books were enough to send him off on a high tangent, knowing he had a way to escape to other worlds. ~ V.C. Andrews

Eyes never learn how to lie ~ V.C. Andrews

From this day forward, I vowed
to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not
God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or
dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to
take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. ~ V.C. Andrews

Getting older means learning how to leave with doubt and how to get home again. ~ V.C. Andrews

...there has to be darkness if there is to be light. ~ V.C. Andrews

You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct. ~ V.C. Andrews

You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time. ~ V.C. Andrews

I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation. ~ V.C. Andrews

I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are. ~ V.C. Andrews

Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up! ~ V.C. Andrews

If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough. ~ V.C. Andrews

All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared for
anything.
And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you
haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself." I kissed him quickly on
the lips, and told him to go on, to hit me with his knockout blow.
"Really, Chris, I know you must have something perfectly awful to tell
me-so out with it. Keep holding me as you tell me, and I can stand
anything you have to say. ~ V.C. Andrews

I am not at all the kind who can forget the tarnish on the reverse side of the brightest coin. ~ V.C. Andrews

Why did the stars seem to be looking down at me with pity, making me feel ant-sized, overwhelmed, completely insignificant? It was too big, that close sky, too beautiful, and it filled me with a strange sense of foreboding. ~ V.C. Andrews

Seek the tarnish and you shall find ~ V.C. Andrews

I want my name to mean something after I'm dead. ~ V.C. Andrews

Maybe there was something wrong with me, but unlike my friends, I wasn't eager to rush into adulthood and get away from everything that tied me to my life as it was now. ~ V.C. Andrews

There was a war going on in our house. A silent war that sounded no guns, and the bodies that fell were only wishes that died and the bullets were only words and the blood that spilled was always called pride. ~ V.C. Andrews

Worry and trouble weighed heavily on the hands of her clock, rushing time along. ~ V.C. Andrews

[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the ad for Magic, the movie where marionette kills people. sent me into a six-month nightmare frenzy. So I couldn't look at her books, would turn them over so their covers wouldn't show, the raised lettering and splotches of blood - especially the V.C. Andrews oeuvre, those turgid pictures of those terrible kids, standing so still, all lit in blue. ~ Dave Eggers

Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough? ~ V.C. Andrews

What women wanted to be eaten alive, choked by a thrusting tongue? Not me, I wanted to be played like a violin, strummed pianissimo, in largo timing, fingered into legato, and let it grow into crescendo. ~ V.C. Andrews

Never would I become so dependent on a man I couldn't make my way in the world, no matter what cruel blow life delivered! ~ V.C. Andrews

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 them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe. ~ V.C. Andrews

Nostalgia was nothing more than dissatisfaction with the present. Anything looked better than now, even harder times. It was a fantasy that people accept. ~ V.C. Andrews

We both knew it couldn't last, Catherine. From the beginning I warned you, April just can't marry with September. ~ V.C. Andrews

According to the accounts, which we've recorded, there was a motorist driving a blue Ford weaving in and out of the lefthand lane, apparently drunk, and he crashed head-on into your husband's car. But it seems your husband must have seen the accident coming, for he swerved to avoid a head-on collision, but a piece of machinery had fallen from another car, or truck, and this kept him from completing his correct defensive driving maneuver, which would have saved his life. But as it was, your husband's much heavier car turned over several times, and still he might have survived, but an oncoming truck, unable to stop, crashed into his car, and again the Cadillac spun over ... and then ... it caught on fire. ~ V.C. Andrews

Yes, she wanted to make us undone that night, when we were young, innocent, trusting, having known only the sweetest part of living. She wanted to wither our souls and shrivel us small and dry, perhaps never to feel pride again.
But she didn't know us. ~ V.C. Andrews

You've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you. ~ V.C. Andrews

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious
and self- righteous while you starve small children! ~ V.C. Andrews

Another year passed, much as the first did. ~ V.C. Andrews

You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you. ~ V.C. Andrews

Asleep you don't feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you just don't care about anything. ~ V.C. Andrews

Too much money buys everything but health, so they have no dreams left to purchase, and no aspirations, so in the end they are only bored. ~ V.C. Andrews

And we were alone. Locked in. All the lights were turned off. Around us, below us, this huge house seemed a monster, holding us in its sharp-toothed mouth. If we moved, whispered, breathed heavily, we'd be swallowed and digested. ~ V.C. Andrews

They had slept like babies. Which proves how important it is for a man to return home, ~ V.C. Andrews

-just on the verge of
becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd
reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom
of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh. ~ V.C. Andrews

We don't anticipate accidents, nor do we expect to die young. ~ V.C. Andrews

I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was young and full of hopes and aspirations, I didn't know I would get hurt so often. I think I'll get tough and won't ache again, then my fragile shell shatters, and again, symbolically, my blood is spilled with the tears I shed. I pull myself back together again, go on, convince myself there is a reason for everything, and at some point in my life it will be disclosed. And when I have what I want, I hope to god it stays long enough to let me know I have it, and it wont hurt when it goes, for I don't expect it to stay, not now. I'm like a doughnut, always being punch out in the middle, and constantly I go around searching for the missing piece, and on and on it goes, never ending, only beginning ... ~ V.C. Andrews

I lay on my back and stared up at that unseeing, uncaring sky. I doubted God lived up there; I doubted heaven was up there, too.
God and heaven were down there on the ground, in the gardens, in the forests, in the parks, on the seashores, on the lakes, and riding the highways, going somewhere! ~ V.C. Andrews

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 both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes. ~ V.C. Andrews

Maybe that was what millions could do
nail a satisfied smirk to one's face. ~ V.C. Andrews

Stature comes from your demeanor, your self confidence. ~ V.C. Andrews

We'll make it work, because two people who are sincerely in love can always overcome obstacles no matter what they are. ~ V.C. Andrews

God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was. ~ V.C. Andrews

Don't try to appeal to me when I feel sick to my stomach. I ask myself each day how I can come home and not be tired of you, and still feel as I do after so many years, and after all that has happened. Yet I go on year after year loving you, needing and trusting you. Don't take my love and make it into something ugly! ~ V.C. Andrews

People make the rules of society, not God. ~ V.C. Andrews

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature. ~ V.C. Andrews

Every word I put down, I put down with tears, with bitter blood, with sour gall, well mixed and blended with shame and guilt. ~ V.C. Andrews

I love you," was his reply. "I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe in
you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us. ~ V.C. Andrews

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 to hard rains, I couldn't help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me. ~ V.C. Andrews

I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night. ~ V.C. Andrews

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Carson ~ V.C. Andrews

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 what to do. ~ V.C. Andrews

Why doesn't the Good Book say honor thy children, Grandpa, why doesn't it? ~ V.C. Andrews

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews. ~ Alafair Burke

Recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman's was not mine and ~ V.C. Andrews

You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story.
Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'll
bet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!"
Just a minute ago I'd despised that author for bringing about such a
miserable ending, then there I went, rushing to the defense. "T. M.
Ellis could very well have been a man! Though I doubt any woman writer
in the nineteenth century had much chance of being published, unless
she used her initials, or a man's name. And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love? And it seems to me, that Raymond was far more
mushy-minded than Lily! ~ V.C. Andrews

And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love? ~ V.C. Andrews

I don't explain love, Bart. I don't think anyone can. It grows from day to day from having contact with that other person who understands your needs, and you understand theirs. It starts with a faltering flutter that touches your heart and makes you vulnerable to everything beautiful. ~ V.C. Andrews

eyes kept changing colors, jumbling his kaleidoscope emotions. ~ V.C. Andrews

We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others. ~ V.C. Andrews

People have a way of believing nothing terrible will ever happen to them, only to others. ~ V.C. Andrews

We're going to change. We're going to throw out what's worse in us
and keep what's best. But come hell or high water, we three will stick
together, all for one, one for all. We're going to grow, Cathy,
physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not only that, we're going to
reach the goals we've set for ourselves. I'll be the best damned
doctor the world's ever known and you will make Pavlova seem like an
awkward country girl. ~ V.C. Andrews

Love ... I put so much faith in it. Truth ... I kept believing it falls always from the lips of the one you love and trust the most. Faith ... it's all bound up to love and trust. Where does one end and the other start, and how do you tell when love is the blindest of all? ~ V.C. Andrews

Love doesn't spurt up like an instant bonfire, consuming all reason, it flickers and falters, and sometimes almost goes out. The fact that it doesn't go out, despite all the rain that fall on it
that's love. ~ V.C. Andrews

Shadows in the house put shadows in the mind. ~ V.C. Andrews

I think you might be the kind to put all the men you love up so high they are bound to come tumbling down. ~ V.C. Andrews

Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you'd rather ignore. ~ V.C. Andrews

It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep. ~ V.C. Andrews

Most of our teachers, knowing we had an extra day off, usually piled on the homework to make up for it. ~ V.C. Andrews

I could have slapped him from the way he moved backward, abandoning the sweet ecstasy of kissing forbidden places that had aroused me. He sat up on the side of the bed and bowed his head into his hands. Then he sobbed, "Always you manage to defeat me, Cathy! First Paul, then Julian . . . and now a baby." Then suddenly he faced me. "Come away and let me be the father to that child! Julian isn't fit! If you never let me touch you, let me live near enough so I can see you every day and hear your voice. Sometimes I want it back like it used to be . . . just you and I, and our twins. ~ V.C. Andrews

We learned love was just like a soap bubble, so shining and bright one day, and the next day it popped. ~ V.C. Andrews

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears. ~ V.C. Andrews

Everyone is an actor. In the end, everyone wants applause. ~ V.C. Andrews