“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.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“I don’t explain love, Bart. I don’t think anyone can. It grows from day to day from having contact with that other person who understands your needs, and you understand theirs. It starts with a faltering flutter that touches your heart and makes you vulnerable to everything beautiful.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another... until you arrive at your destination.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“Hay un jardin en el cielo, que esta esperando. Es un jardin que Chris y yo imaginamos hace muchos años, mientras yaciamos en una losa dura y negra del tejado y contemplabamos el Sol y las estrellas”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“La vida es siempre asi: veinte minutos de afliccion por dos segundos de alegria.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“Once I was in the cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn't as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs.
On my way to the attic.
On my way to where I'd find my Christopher, again...”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“a long time ago I’d given up on religion, thinking it wasn’t for me when so many were bigoted, narrow-minded, and cruel.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“We came together like long separated lovers who might never have the chance to kiss and hug again.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“Los malvados siempre se las arreglan para permanecer jovenes y sanos mucho mas tiempo que aquellos que tienen un lugar reservado en el cielo”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“El orgullo es el vicio siempre presente de los imbeciles”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“Unicamente yo tenia secos los ojos, seco el corazon”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“He stepped beside me and encircled my shoulders with the comfort of his arm, protecting me from Joel, from everything. With him I’d live in a thatched hut, a tent, a cave. He gave me strength.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“I knew then he was blind when he looked at me.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“needing arms to hold me safe during the darkness, wanting kisses on my face to put me to sleep, to wake me up, to put over me a safe parasol of love.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“¿Y cuando ha sido justa la vida, Cathy?”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“He estado demasiado tiempo en la medicina para no saber que la justicia no esta distribuida con equidad”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
“I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.
Once I was in that cold dim room, without furniture or carpet or rugs, only a dollhouse that wasn’t as wonderful as the original, I opened the tall and narrow closet door and began my ascent up the steep and narrow stairs.
On my way to the attic.
On my way to where I’d find my Christopher, again . . .”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Seeds of Yesterday
V.C. Andrews
Born place: in Portsmouth, Virginia, The United States
Born date June 6, 1923
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“No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“she watched his face because she hoped it would betray some indication of her own reality – some flicker of interest or concentration of notice which might indicate that she was actually present with another person.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Mirror of Her Dreams
“عندما يُرتكب عمل ذميم باسم عقيدة ما، أيّا كانت، لا تصبح هذه العقيدة مذنبة.”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view. ”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis. Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen. To be less abstract, let us suppose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected. It is obvious that here the victory can be decided (the players being at all equal) only by some recherché movement, the result of some strong exertion of the intellect. Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometime indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into error or hurry into miscalculation.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
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