'You know the only way we can be twins again?' she asked. I shook my head. She smiled. 'I'll tell you. Get crippled,' she said, and closed her eyes." -"Ruby" by V.C. Andrews

"I saw the brightness in his eyes when he set them on me. Both of our voices were full of excitement then. The world seemed so innocent and precious. Every color,every shape,ever scent, was richer. When were together exploring our young feelings,we were like the first couple on earth discovering things we couldn't imagine others discovering before us. No one ever adequately explains the wonder born in your heart when you undress your new feelings in front of someone who is undressing his too. That trust,that childhood faith is so pure and good,you can't imagine any betrayals. Surely all the trouble and misery you know and about in the world around you will be walled out by these powerful new feelings woven into an impenetrable fabric. You can make promises,expose your dreams, and dream new things together. Nothing seems impossible and the last thing you can imagine is that some malicious
Fate has been toying with you,leading you down a dark highway that will bring you to these tragic moments"- "All that Glitters" by V.C. Andrews

"I was the kind of child who'd always looked for fairies dancing on the grass. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spell. I didn't want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation. I didn't know at that time that I had come to live in what was virtually a strong and dark castle, ruled over by a witch and an ogre. I didn't guess that some modern-day wizards could weave money to create a spell..."
V.C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic

"'We lived in the attic,
Christopher,Cory,Carrie and me
,Now there are only three'
I signed my name and wrote down the date. In my heart i knew that the ghosts of the four of us would override all other ghosts of children shut away in an attic schoolroom. I left an enigma for someone in the future to unwind" -Flowers in the attic

"Where was the fragile golden-fair Dresden doll i used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelein turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted,no matter who or what stood in her way"
-Flowers in the attic

"The worldy and heartless lie in wait for the naive and innocent. We were young and vulnerable,weak,half-sick,but no longer naive or innocent"
-Flowers in the attic

"I'd been kept captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,deceived,lied to,used,poisoned...but all that was over now.

I had been barely twelve years old when Momma led us through the dense piney woods on a starry moonlit night,...just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain,part of my flesh"
-Flowers in the Attic

"I think of us more as flowers in the attic. Paper flowers. Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long grim,dreary,nightmarish days when we were held prisoner of hope and held captive by greed. "
-Flowers in the attic

"Dear Paul,

You will probably grow up never hearing my name. If we do see each other, you will not look at me any differently from the way you look at anyone else. Perhaps,when you are old enough to realize, you might see me looking at you with a soft smile on my face and you might wonder who I am and why I am gazing at you this way. If you ask your parents about me, they won't tell you anything. We will remain strangers.
But maybe, just maybe, on a night as warm and as lonely as this one is for me, you will feel a strange longing and you will realize something is missing. You may never tell anyone about this feeling, but it will be theer and it will come often.
And then, one day when you're old enough to put that feeling into a thought, you will remember the young girl who looked at you with such love and you will realize there was something more in her eyes.
Maybe you will contront your father or mother and maybe, just maybe they will be forced to tell you the truth.
I wonder then if you will hate me for deserting you. I wonder if you will want to know me. I wonder if we will ever have a conversation.
If we did, I would tell you that when you were born, I thought it was glorious and I was filled with such love for you. I feared my heart would burst. I would tell you i spent night after night crying when i thought about you. I would tell you i was sorry.
Of course, you might hate your father and resent your stepmother, so i have to think hard before i tell you these things. It might be that for your sake I never do, because your happiness is far more important to me than my own.
I just want you to know I love you, and even though I didn't want it to happen, you became a part of me and always will be.
Love,
Your mother Gabriel..."
- "Tarnished Gold" by V.C. Andrews

"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."-'My sweet Audrina' by V.C. Andrews

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