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Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2) QUOTES

Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2) QUOTES

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

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

2 " The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

3 " Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

4 " Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

5 " ...I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was young and full of hopes and aspirations, I didn't know I would get hurt so often. I think I'll get tough and won't ache again, then my fragile shell shatters, and again, symbolically, my blood is spilled with the tears I shed. I pull myself back together again, go on, convince myself there is a reason for everything, and at some point in my life it will be disclosed. And when I have what I want, I hope to god it stays long enough to let me know I have it, and it wont hurt when it goes, for I don't expect it to stay, not now. I'm like a doughnut, always being punch out in the middle, and constantly I go around searching for the missing piece, and on and on it goes, never ending, only beginning... "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

6 " How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

7 " 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. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

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

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

9 " All you need do is say good-bye to yesterday’s loves, and hello to the new. Look around and see who needs you most and you won’t go wrong. Forget who needed you yesterday. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

10 " Death can be a good friend to those in extreme pain. I wondered how he held on so long... "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

11 " I think you might be the kind to put all the men you love up so high they are bound to come tumbling down. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

12 " I watched the jealousy between them grow, and felt it was none of my fault--only Momma's! As everything wrong in my life was her fault. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

13 " What women wanted to be eaten alive, choked by a thrusting tongue? Not me, I wanted to be played like a violin, strummed pianissimo, in largo timing, fingered into legato, and let it grow into crescendo. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

14 " Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear! "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

15 " Y pidio a Dios que se la tragase al suelo. Pero los suelos nunca se abren cuando deberian hacerlo. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

16 " I don't know if it's for the better, but I do know people aren't static. We all change from day to day. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

17 " I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack of understanding the human condition "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

18 " way you find out how much they care is by looking into the eyes—eyes never learn how to lie. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

19 " Yo solo podia preguntarme por que tenia que ocurrirnos todas las desgracias. Por que se empenaba el destino en perseguirnos? "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)

20 " I want you to understand that what is black to one person is white to another. And nothing in this world is so perfect that it is pure white, or so bad it is pure black. Everything concerning human beings comes in shades of gray, Carrie. "

― V.C. Andrews , Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)