Virginia C. Andrews Quotes

• love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Love Is, Attachment, Roots

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• Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

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  Real, Believe, Church

  Virginia C. Andrews (1984). “Seeds of yesterday”, Pocket

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• Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

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  Two, Joy, Life Is Like

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• The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

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  Dream, Creative, Genius

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• 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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lucky, Feels, Ifs

  Virginia C. Andrews (1981). “If there be thorns”, Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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

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  Dream, Imagination, Treasure

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• It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.

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  Eye, Secret, Way

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue.

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  Morning, Clouds, Blue

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• Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Promise, Cinnamon

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• Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Friendship, Wall, Angel

  Virginia C. Andrews (1980). “Petals on the wind”, Pocket

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• ...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Determination, Dedication, Desire

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• There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.

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  Revenge, Hate, Brain

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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

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  Chance, Cathy, Offers

  Virginia C. Andrews (1980). “Petals on the wind”, Pocket

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• What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

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  Ordinary, Different, Mediocre Life

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• If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

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  Crush, Wings, Bird

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• Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.

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  Powerful, Book, Ordinary

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience

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  Emotion, Dangerous, Humans

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• Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

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  Want, Sometimes, Despite

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

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  Children, Going Away, Never Quit

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• Seek the tarnish and you shall find

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  Virginia C. Andrews (1989). “Seeds of Yesterday”, Pocket

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• 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.

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  War, Pride, Gun

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• Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Thinking, People, Return

  V. C. Andrews (1999). “Olivia”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Love You

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