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a833815	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
c8713f6	Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols--and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.	inspirational-love	V.C. Andrews
5a33d11	All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.	mental pain suffering	V.C. Andrews
7652056	At least when you were silent, you didn't make any new enemies.		V.C. Andrews
f8b6aee	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
3cd69be	And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that man, shadowy and distant, half-hidden behind towering white columns that rose clear up to a purple sky. In a passionate pas de deux he danced with me, forever apart, no matter how hard i sought to draw nearer and leap into his arms, where i could feel them protective about me, supportin..		V.C. Andrews
ad169e0	Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you'd rather ignore.		V.C. Andrews
925925e	Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.		V.C. Andrews
43af70f	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
7038583	I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter		V.C. Andrews
828d438	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 ..	most-relevant-quote-i-ever-read	V.C. Andrews
116d324	There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty.		V.C. Andrews
b28f2f5	Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It's fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling yourself in the school of disappointment. Being human means failing each other often, and no two people fail each other more than two people who pledge to do things for each other that they'll never do because they are just incapable of it...Tha..	heartbreak love	V.C. Andrews
d9c35b2	Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!	baby buy child children cry crying dead death eyes glare glares glaring kid kids life money-monetary plead pleading talk talking young young-adults youth	V.C. Andrews
8d79680	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." 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 m..	captive decieved defeat defeated doom doomed dreaming expectations fate great-expectations greed happiness longing perfection poisened put-downs striving towmorrow used vow vows wanting wants years years-of-struggle	V.C. Andrews
090c807	Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan		V.C. Andrews
d19e1eb	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.	emotion emotional goals mental physical	V.C. Andrews
51f5a47	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.	distance landry love lust pearl-in-the-mist possibilities time v-c-andrews withstand	V.C. Andrews
1a659d5	Little rabbits have big ears.		V.C. Andrews
6a897b5	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
7431128	You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel." I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man."	child feminist girl innocence lmao man woman	V.C. Andrews
cb74f52	My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes.		V.C. Andrews
2985336	Death can be a good friend to those in extreme pain. I wondered how he held on so long...		V.C. Andrews
3255d0c	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.	youth	V.C. Andrews
f16ee51	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 another... until you arrive at your destination.	life	V.C. Andrews
b588713	What if I am a curse?" "Then you're the prettiest and nicest curse I know."		V.C. Andrews
8f44353	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
3ee39ce	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
5b7ed90	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
02e60e3	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.	control domination fate life vow vows	V.C. Andrews
3407c7e	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.	happiness time waiting	V.C. Andrews
2955d8f	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
883c4b1	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
e091728	Blood ties are not supposed to be chains.		V.C. Andrews
f69f568	Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.	millionaire money petals-on-the-wind rich rich-people smirk	V.C. Andrews
1433e04	I watched the jealousy between them grow, and felt it was none of my fault--only Momma's! As everything wrong in my life was her fault.		V.C. Andrews
e5d97e9	Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!	baby child children dresses gray kid kids pious righteous self-righteous standing	V.C. Andrews
a702efb	We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.	abandonement alive away book-reading books children experience good-time idle live lived lives read reading thumbs vicarious	V.C. Andrews
2ec36b5	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 muc..	dying-for-love initials love nineteenth-century publishing romance-novels-books romantic romantic-notions silliness unhappy-endings women-authors	V.C. Andrews
30dcab0	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.	catastrophes coffee happiness hope hopes indoors loll outdoors outside sitting	V.C. Andrews
73dcf6a	The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears		V.C. Andrews
e3afcf1	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.	bones brain flesh mature maturity mountains older teens wisdom	V.C. Andrews
41757b3	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."	awful breather incest kiss kisses kissing love loving prepared stand stand-anything telling-the-truth thanks unadmired unloved	V.C. Andrews
57ee32e	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.	change colors fall fire love passionate running seasons trees winter	V.C. Andrews

a833815

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

c8713f6

Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols--and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.

inspirational-love

V.C. Andrews

5a33d11

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.

mental pain suffering

V.C. Andrews

7652056

At least when you were silent, you didn't make any new enemies.

V.C. Andrews

f8b6aee

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

3cd69be

And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that man, shadowy and distant, half-hidden behind towering white columns that rose clear up to a purple sky. In a passionate pas de deux he danced with me, forever apart, no matter how hard i sought to draw nearer and leap into his arms, where i could feel them protective about me, supportin..

V.C. Andrews

ad169e0

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

V.C. Andrews

925925e

Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.

V.C. Andrews

43af70f

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

7038583

I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter

V.C. Andrews

828d438

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 ..

most-relevant-quote-i-ever-read

V.C. Andrews

116d324

There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty.

V.C. Andrews

b28f2f5

Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It's fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling yourself in the school of disappointment. Being human means failing each other often, and no two people fail each other more than two people who pledge to do things for each other that they'll never do because they are just incapable of it...Tha..

heartbreak love

V.C. Andrews

d9c35b2

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

baby buy child children cry crying dead death eyes glare glares glaring kid kids life money-monetary plead pleading talk talking young young-adults youth

V.C. Andrews

8d79680

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." 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 m..

captive decieved defeat defeated doom doomed dreaming expectations fate great-expectations greed happiness longing perfection poisened put-downs striving towmorrow used vow vows wanting wants years years-of-struggle

V.C. Andrews

090c807

Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan

V.C. Andrews

d19e1eb

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.

emotion emotional goals mental physical

V.C. Andrews

51f5a47

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.

distance landry love lust pearl-in-the-mist possibilities time v-c-andrews withstand

V.C. Andrews

1a659d5

Little rabbits have big ears.

V.C. Andrews

6a897b5

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

7431128

You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel." I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man."

child feminist girl innocence lmao man woman

V.C. Andrews

cb74f52

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

V.C. Andrews

2985336

Death can be a good friend to those in extreme pain. I wondered how he held on so long...

V.C. Andrews

3255d0c

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.

youth

V.C. Andrews

f16ee51

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 another... until you arrive at your destination.

life

V.C. Andrews

b588713

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

V.C. Andrews

8f44353

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

3ee39ce

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

5b7ed90

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

02e60e3

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.

control domination fate life vow vows

V.C. Andrews

3407c7e

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.

happiness time waiting

V.C. Andrews

2955d8f

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

883c4b1

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

e091728

Blood ties are not supposed to be chains.

V.C. Andrews

f69f568

Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.

millionaire money petals-on-the-wind rich rich-people smirk

V.C. Andrews

1433e04

I watched the jealousy between them grow, and felt it was none of my fault--only Momma's! As everything wrong in my life was her fault.

V.C. Andrews

e5d97e9

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

baby child children dresses gray kid kids pious righteous self-righteous standing

V.C. Andrews

a702efb

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

abandonement alive away book-reading books children experience good-time idle live lived lives read reading thumbs vicarious

V.C. Andrews

2ec36b5

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 muc..

dying-for-love initials love nineteenth-century publishing romance-novels-books romantic romantic-notions silliness unhappy-endings women-authors

V.C. Andrews

30dcab0

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.

catastrophes coffee happiness hope hopes indoors loll outdoors outside sitting

V.C. Andrews

73dcf6a

The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears

V.C. Andrews

e3afcf1

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.

bones brain flesh mature maturity mountains older teens wisdom

V.C. Andrews

41757b3

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."

awful breather incest kiss kisses kissing love loving prepared stand stand-anything telling-the-truth thanks unadmired unloved

V.C. Andrews

57ee32e

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.

change colors fall fire love passionate running seasons trees winter

V.C. Andrews