Quotes by V.C. Andrews

“I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play...”

“Though I'm not sure, I thought I saw women dressed in black, with her head and face covered by a black veil, duck behind a tree as we approached the road and parked car. Hiding so we wouldn't see h...”

“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!”

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

“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”

“People make the rules of society, not God.”

“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.”

“He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off.”

“I love you, was his reply. I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best intere...”

“Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.”

“God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written ...”

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

“And when I fall in love, I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the cl...”

“What's doneis done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we'rewasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everythingahead, waiting for us."Just the right words to mak...”

“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 want...”

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

“Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!”

“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”

“Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!”

“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. We haven'tremained idle, twiddlin...”