" Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went to
the police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the front
pages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicity
make up for what we'd lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together?
Could we lose each other just to get even? "

― V.C. Andrews , Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)