I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,

— V.C. Andrews

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe.

— V.C. Andrews

I used to have this toy, a magic slate. You wrote or drew on it and then, just by pulling up the plastic cover, everything you did disappeared and you could start new. Maybe everyone feels that on New Year's Eve: They can pull up the magic sheet and rewrite their lives.

— V.C. Andrews

I was the last of the four Dresden dolls. Only me... and I didn't want to be here.

— 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...

— V.C. Andrews

-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'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.

— V.C. Andrews

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

— V.C. Andrews

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

— V.C. Andrews

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

— V.C. Andrews

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

— V.C. Andrews