Quotes from Virginia C. Andrews

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

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

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.

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

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

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

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan

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.

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

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.