V.C. Andrews Quotes

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

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 ye...

Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

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.

We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!

Just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my...

Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back tears? I had grown older, and had lost enthusiasm for childish delights. I wanted...

And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of findingthe perfect love?

A Colder breeze lifted a dead leaf to the roof and sent it scuttling merrily on its way to catch in my hair. It crackled dry and brittle when Chris plucked it out and held it, just staring down at a d...

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

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.

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.

We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

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

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

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 kn...

I jumped then. It seemed I heard a child laugh. My imagination, of course. And then, when I should have known better, I headed for the closet and the high and narrow door at the very back end and the...