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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 27d4191 | It's not good to be alone when you feel bereft. It's better to be with people and share your grief, and not keep it locked up inside." She said this dry-eyed, with not a tear, but somewhere deep inside her she was crying, screaming." | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 93d4b83 | We were again, as we'd been before, small fledgling birds sitting on a clothesline waiting for a strong gust of wind to blow us asunder. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 23f55c2 | Still, we were young, and hope has strong roots in the young, right down to their toes, | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 1dee2fc | Why was it I never realized when I was able to run wild and free that I was experiencing happiness? 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? Why had I thought that happiness reserved itself for those grown to full size? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| f2187a4 | Now they were inclined to only creep instead of fly, and smile instead of laugh. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 4266c75 | I couldn't go to sleep. I kept hearing him calling me, wanting me. I got up and drifted down the hall and again got in his bed, where he lay waiting. "You'll never be free of me, Cathy, never. As long as you live, it will be me and you." "No!" "Yes!" | chris petals-in-the-wind | V.C.Andrews | |
| e9b1fde | I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 115d112 | of what value was the past when the present was so thrilling, and pleasing | V.C. Andrews | ||
| d6a26aa | Come and greet me with kisses if you love me. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| db4ae72 | With everything you gained, you had to lose something - so I might as well as get used to it, and make the best of it. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b0c2a86 | When you grow up, and have a million adult things to do, you forget how long a day can be for a child | V.C. Andrews | ||
| ad73011 | To love anything once extremely well made you vulnerable to another love attack. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 1dccd13 | Fed, clothed, and housed? Is that all you want out of life? There's a world of glamour and pleasure beyond the walls of this museum. Go after it. If you don't, I will. Arden, look at me. I'm twenty-five, one year younger than you are. Life moves so swiftly. Soon we'll both be thirty. It's now or never. What good does lots of money do when you're too old to enjoy it? What good are beautiful clothes and expensive jewelery when your figure is .. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| eb5364c | Behind that I would shield myself, and I'd tell him to go away. "Don't," he said when I had the dress in my hands. | flowers-in-the-attic | V.C. Andrews | |
| 5564ccb | You really think I'm pretty enough for a man to love?" "You're more than pretty enough." He sounded embarrassed. "Chris, remember when Momma told us that it was money that made the world go around and not love? Well, I think she's wrong." "Yeah? Give that a bit more thought. Why can't you have both?" I gave it thought. Plenty of thought. I lay and stared up at the ceiling that was my dancing floor, and I mulled life and love over and over. .. | flowers-in-the-attic | V.C. Andrews | |
| 2605d9e | I stayed to spy on them. I heard my mother moaning, and crying out for Chris. Then she surprised me. "Momma, where has Momma gone, Chris? It's been so long since she visited us, months, months, and the twins don't grow." | corrine seeds-of-yesterday | V.C. Andrews | |
| 19dfa7e | I was the kind of child who 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 explorations. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| cfdb38a | There's a garden in the sky, waiting there for me. It's a garden that Chris and I imagined years ago, while we lay on a hard black slate roof and stared up at the sun and the stars. He's up there, whispering in the winds to tell me that's where the purple grass grows. They're all up there waiting for me. So, forgive me for being tired, too tired to stay. I have lived long enough, and can say my life was full of happiness as well as sadness... | seeds-from-yesterday | V.C. Andrews | |
| 31801f1 | Cruelty comes in many forms -- ignorance is one of them. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| d34f8ec | How I wished I could someday walk with a man like that--a man like Malcolm. But it was not to be. It seemed God was deaf to my hopes and prayers for love. I sighed. As I turned back to my book, I realized all I could know of love and life would be from books. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| d943910 | Good-bye to lonely nights. Good-bye to this world of fantasy and dreams. Good-bye to my father's face of pity and to my own forlorn look in the mirror. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 2110c2a | His blue eyes gazed down into mine. Eyes so much alike. I loved him as I loved the better side of myself, the brighter, happier side. "Cathy," he whispered, stroking my back, his eyes bright, "if you feel like crying, go ahead, I'll understand. Cry enough for me too. I was hoping, praying that Momma would come and somehow give us a reasonable explanation for doing what she did." "A reasonable excuse for murder?" I asked bitterly. "How could.. | petals-in-the-wind sathy | V.C. Andrews | |
| 981ca02 | Cathy--look at me! Don't turn your head and pretend you don't know what I'm doing, what I'm saying! Look and see the torment you've put me in! How can I find anyone else, when you've been bred into my bones--and are part of my flesh? Your blood runs fast when mine does! Your eyes burn when mine do--don't deny it! | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 38f216a | I was fourteen years old--and that is an age when a girl just begins to feel her power over men. And I knew I was what most boys and men considered beautiful, and I guess, in a way, I was ripe for love. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 9a5976b | Las personas somos como diminutas semillas, nutridas por el amor, la amistad y los cuidados. Si se les dedica el tiempo y la atencion suficientes, incluso una vieja planta raquitica, abandonada en un patio arido, florecera cuando menos se espere. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 9af0eb2 | Around two in the afternoon, the telephone in my room rang. I'd just laid down to rest. It was Chris. "Darling, I can't stop worrying about what might happen. I think your fears are getting to me. Have patience. I'll be seeing you in an hour. Are you all right?" "Why wouldn't I be all right?" | V.C. Andrews | ||
| e653e78 | Nobody ever does anything for anyone else unless it gives them even more. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| e06903b | sonriendo | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 7fa4889 | there are some mothers you just can't love, for they don't want you to love them. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| f3cd9c4 | Como Determinar se Voce e Rico No livro O Milionario Mora ao Lado os autores Thomas J. Stanley e William D. Danko apresentam uma formula simples que permite descobrir qual e o seu Patrimonio Liquido Esperado. Para isto basta multiplicar a sua idade pela sua renda anual total, que acabamos de calcular. Depois divida o resultado por dez. O valor resultante representa o patrimonio liquido que voce deveria possuir. | Diogo Pereira | ||
| 69b8e3a | thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts. | George S. Clason | ||
| acd7b50 | You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria. | George S. Clason | ||
| 434a148 | I thought not that you would. But it is there and simple too. Just this: If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself. | George S. Clason | ||
| 082e5d5 | Die in the desert! Not I! With a new vision, I saw the things that I must do. First I would go back to Babylon and face every man to whom I owed an unpaid debt. I should tell them that after years of wandering and misfortune, I had come back to pay my debts as fast as God would permit. Next I should make a home for my wife and become a citizen of whom my parents should be proud. "My debts were my enemies, but the men I owed were my friends .. | George S. Clason | ||
| bcb0812 | I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger? What mattered thirst? They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve. | George S. Clason | ||
| ed5049f | Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. | George S. Clason | ||
| a4253e7 | So ended the tale of Dabasir the camel trader of old Babylon. He found his own soul when he realized a great truth, a truth that had been known and used by wise men long before his time. It has led men of all ages out of difficulties and into success and it will continue to do so for those who have the wisdom to understand its magic power. It is for any man to use who reads these lines. | George S. Clason | ||
| 6d2dfef | Second, the PLAN doth provide that I shall support and clothe my good wife who hath returned to me with loyalty from the house of her father. For Mathon doth say that to take good care of a faithful wife putteth self respect into the heart of a man and addeth strength and determination to his purposes. | George S. Clason | ||
| 5d900a7 | that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness. | George S. Clason | ||
| 859ca91 | A bag heavy with gold or a clay tablet carved with words of wisdom; if thou hadst thy choice, which wouldst thou choose? | George S. Clason | ||
| 649574a | El deseo debe preceder a la realizacion. Vuestros deseos tienen que ser fuertes y bien definidos. Los deseos vagos no son mas que debiles deseos. | George S. Clason | ||
| 1d972bb | Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. | George S. Clason | ||
| 68f5b6e | And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. | George S. Clason | ||
| 6c0a98b | Never mind though our purses be as empty as the falcon's nest of a year ago. Let that not detain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquire incomes for ourselves. | George S. Clason |