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f1c987d	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
1ef95ff	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 and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!	gothic petals-on-the-wind premonition roses vc-andrews wind	V.C. Andrews
c40c5bf	Hay un jardin en el cielo, que esta esperando. Es un jardin que Chris y yo imaginamos hace muchos anos, mientras yaciamos en una losa dura y negra del tejado y contemplabamos el Sol y las estrellas		V.C. Andrews
b7acabd	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
6f1dd3f	We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.	idle thumbs	V.C. Andrews
2319ccc	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.	disapointment doom doomed expectations facial-expressions happiness perfection put-down put-downs putting-people-down small small-share towmorrow work-out	V.C. Andrews
ff016cf	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.	cloudburst landry melancholy pearl-in-the-mist rain sadness sunshine thoughts v-c-andrews	V.C. Andrews
560fc1d	It's not that I'm afraid to die, it's only the road to death that terrifies me, for sometimes it can be so drawn out.		V.C. Andrews
706206d	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.	dreams happiness hill hoping longing mountain mountains satisfy striving	V.C. Andrews
82b3b24	For when I waltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.	changed dance dancing him someone someone-else waltzed	V.C. Andrews
629a99c	Love...I put so much faith in it. Truth...I kept believing it falls always from the top 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
925ebc7	Being mature means realizing life is filled with dark days,too.		V.C. Andrews
b6beb31	We are perfect children. Mentally, physically, emotionally, we are wholesome, and godly in every way possible. We have as much right to live, love, and enjoy life as any other children on this earth.		V.C. Andrews
ec3aefb	You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain.		V.C. Andrews
75f3107	If you work to obtain your goal, and realize from the very beginning that nothing valuable comes easily, and still forge ahead, without a doubt you'll reach your goal, whatever it is.		V.C. Andrews
01fb962	Life is always like that--twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. So, be everlastingly grateful for those rare two seconds and appreciate; appreciate what good you can find, no matter what the cost.		V.C. Andrews
91b1da6	At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer--and gold weighed a ton--and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.		V.C. Andrews
b1458a9	has to be darkness if there is to be light.		V.C. Andrews
c2800f5	Y pidio a Dios que se la tragase al suelo. Pero los suelos nunca se abren cuando deberian hacerlo.		V.C. Andrews
6090142	there has to be darkness if there is to be light.		V.C. Andrews
e7b6849	I was the kind of child who'd always looked for fairies dancing on the grass. 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
fad765e	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.	constant people static	V.C. Andrews
382a54d	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.	hearbreak heartache incest loss	V.C. Andrews
c03a790	Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.	adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults	V.C. Andrews
ba0561e	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
1efda71	Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went to the police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the front pages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicity make up for what we'd lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together? Could we lose each other just to get even?	faces front-page lose newpaper newspapers police privacy stories story thinking together	V.C. Andrews
a2fe729	you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.		V.C. Andrews
2355393	No habiamos dicho ya un millon de oraciones, siempre en espera de una liberacion que no llegaba nunca? Y si las lagrimas no servian de nada y las oraciones no las oia nadie, como ibamos a llegar hasta Dios para obligarle a que hiciera algo?		V.C. Andrews
4868850	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.	down-here each-day god life living mothers players scripts speaking spoke spoken-words thought written	V.C. Andrews
54de0df	I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look, only far thinner, and less glorious.	brush brushing brushing-hair glorious hair hair-care long-hair looks shine shiny-hair thick-hair thin thin-hair used-to	V.C. Andrews
26c6cc2	I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack of understanding the human condition		V.C. Andrews
dcde812	Swing low, sweet chariot, comin'for t'carry me home...' was the tune I hummed as I made the beds, and waited for the news to come that our grandfather was on his way to heaven if his gold counted, and to hell if the Devil couldn't be bribed.	omg	V.C. Andrews
fec0250	I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.	heart impressions landry pearl-in-the-mist reactions v-c-andrews wisdom	V.C. Andrews
18f4426	There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed		V.C. Andrews
13c5794	Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.	destroy hardships kill landry pearl-in-the-mist stronger survival tough v-c-andrews	V.C. Andrews
46d9c75	I don't think anything about the human body and the way it functions is disgusting or revolting.		V.C. Andrews
dd1daa4	Los invitados, que habian venido tan elegantemente vestidos a la fiesta de cumplea*os, nos rodearon, pronunciando esas frases consoladoras que dice la gente cuando la verdad es que no hay nada que decir		V.C. Andrews
5fa11d9	I loved her in an odd kind of way, the way you love winter when you're hot in summer.		V.C. Andrews
f1f4377	La vida es siempre asi: veinte minutos de afliccion por dos segundos de alegria.		V.C. Andrews
be3a9ef	If there were no shadows, how could we see the sunlight?		V.C. Andrews
9782f27	Once I was in the cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn't as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs. On my way to the attic. On my way to where I'd find my Christopher, again...	heartache heartbreak incest loss	V.C. Andrews
3ff3fb3	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
0bba83b	Did she really believe that love, once gained, couldn't be torn asunder by doubts and fears, and could never, never be put back together again?		V.C. Andrews
045308a	we could survive the worst, doesn't it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?		V.C. Andrews

f1c987d

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

1ef95ff

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 and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!

gothic petals-on-the-wind premonition roses vc-andrews wind

V.C. Andrews

c40c5bf

Hay un jardin en el cielo, que esta esperando. Es un jardin que Chris y yo imaginamos hace muchos anos, mientras yaciamos en una losa dura y negra del tejado y contemplabamos el Sol y las estrellas

V.C. Andrews

b7acabd

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

6f1dd3f

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

idle thumbs

V.C. Andrews

2319ccc

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.

disapointment doom doomed expectations facial-expressions happiness perfection put-down put-downs putting-people-down small small-share towmorrow work-out

V.C. Andrews

ff016cf

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.

cloudburst landry melancholy pearl-in-the-mist rain sadness sunshine thoughts v-c-andrews

V.C. Andrews

560fc1d

It's not that I'm afraid to die, it's only the road to death that terrifies me, for sometimes it can be so drawn out.

V.C. Andrews

706206d

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.

dreams happiness hill hoping longing mountain mountains satisfy striving

V.C. Andrews

82b3b24

For when I waltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.

changed dance dancing him someone someone-else waltzed

V.C. Andrews

629a99c

Love...I put so much faith in it. Truth...I kept believing it falls always from the top 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

925ebc7

Being mature means realizing life is filled with dark days,too.

V.C. Andrews

b6beb31

We are perfect children. Mentally, physically, emotionally, we are wholesome, and godly in every way possible. We have as much right to live, love, and enjoy life as any other children on this earth.

V.C. Andrews

ec3aefb

You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain.

V.C. Andrews

75f3107

If you work to obtain your goal, and realize from the very beginning that nothing valuable comes easily, and still forge ahead, without a doubt you'll reach your goal, whatever it is.

V.C. Andrews

01fb962

Life is always like that--twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. So, be everlastingly grateful for those rare two seconds and appreciate; appreciate what good you can find, no matter what the cost.

V.C. Andrews

91b1da6

At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer--and gold weighed a ton--and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

V.C. Andrews

b1458a9

has to be darkness if there is to be light.

V.C. Andrews

c2800f5

Y pidio a Dios que se la tragase al suelo. Pero los suelos nunca se abren cuando deberian hacerlo.

V.C. Andrews

6090142

there has to be darkness if there is to be light.

V.C. Andrews

e7b6849

I was the kind of child who'd always looked for fairies dancing on the grass. 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

fad765e

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.

constant people static

V.C. Andrews

382a54d

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.

hearbreak heartache incest loss

V.C. Andrews

c03a790

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults

V.C. Andrews

ba0561e

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

1efda71

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went to the police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the front pages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicity make up for what we'd lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together? Could we lose each other just to get even?

faces front-page lose newpaper newspapers police privacy stories story thinking together

V.C. Andrews

a2fe729

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.

V.C. Andrews

2355393

No habiamos dicho ya un millon de oraciones, siempre en espera de una liberacion que no llegaba nunca? Y si las lagrimas no servian de nada y las oraciones no las oia nadie, como ibamos a llegar hasta Dios para obligarle a que hiciera algo?

V.C. Andrews

4868850

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.

down-here each-day god life living mothers players scripts speaking spoke spoken-words thought written

V.C. Andrews

54de0df

I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look, only far thinner, and less glorious.

brush brushing brushing-hair glorious hair hair-care long-hair looks shine shiny-hair thick-hair thin thin-hair used-to

V.C. Andrews

26c6cc2

I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack of understanding the human condition

V.C. Andrews

dcde812

Swing low, sweet chariot, comin'for t'carry me home...' was the tune I hummed as I made the beds, and waited for the news to come that our grandfather was on his way to heaven if his gold counted, and to hell if the Devil couldn't be bribed.

omg

V.C. Andrews

fec0250

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

heart impressions landry pearl-in-the-mist reactions v-c-andrews wisdom

V.C. Andrews

18f4426

There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed

V.C. Andrews

13c5794

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

destroy hardships kill landry pearl-in-the-mist stronger survival tough v-c-andrews

V.C. Andrews

46d9c75

I don't think anything about the human body and the way it functions is disgusting or revolting.

V.C. Andrews

dd1daa4

Los invitados, que habian venido tan elegantemente vestidos a la fiesta de cumplea*os, nos rodearon, pronunciando esas frases consoladoras que dice la gente cuando la verdad es que no hay nada que decir

V.C. Andrews

5fa11d9

I loved her in an odd kind of way, the way you love winter when you're hot in summer.

V.C. Andrews

f1f4377

La vida es siempre asi: veinte minutos de afliccion por dos segundos de alegria.

V.C. Andrews

be3a9ef

If there were no shadows, how could we see the sunlight?

V.C. Andrews

9782f27

Once I was in the cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn't as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs. On my way to the attic. On my way to where I'd find my Christopher, again...

heartache heartbreak incest loss

V.C. Andrews

3ff3fb3

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

0bba83b

Did she really believe that love, once gained, couldn't be torn asunder by doubts and fears, and could never, never be put back together again?

V.C. Andrews

045308a

we could survive the worst, doesn't it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?

V.C. Andrews