Virginia C. Andrews Quotes

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Dream, Creative, Genius

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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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Real, Believe, Church

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

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Two, Joy, Life Is Like

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Ordinary, Different, Mediocre Life

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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?

  Virginia C. Andrews

  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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Eye, Secret, Way

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

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Crush, Wings, Bird

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Emotion, Dangerous, Humans

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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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• 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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Morning, Clouds, Blue

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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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Chance, Cathy, Offers

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

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Revenge, Hate, Brain

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

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Want, Sometimes, Despite

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

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• 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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Rainbow, Gold, World

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

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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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Powerful, Book, Ordinary

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• Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Promise, Cinnamon

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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.

  Virginia C. Andrews

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

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Believe, Fall, Love Is

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

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Thinking

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

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