Top 100 V.C. Andrews Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”

— V.C. Andrews

2. “It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.”

— V.C. Andrews

3. “Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon.”

— V.C. Andrews

4. “At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.”

— V.C. Andrews

5. “Love doesn’t always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”

— V.C. Andrews

6. “Everyone is an actor. In the end, everyone wants applause.”

— V.C. Andrews

7. “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

8. “You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.”

— V.C. Andrews

9. “Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn’t the house. It’s my own thoughts that lock me up!”

— V.C. Andrews

10. “If there were no shadows, how could we see the sunlight?”

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11. “And where was happiness? In the yesterdays? In the tomorrows? Not in this hour, this minute, this second. We had one thing, and one thing only, to give us a spark of joy. Hope.”

— V.C. Andrews

12. “People never really die until you forget them.”

— V.C. Andrews

13. “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

14. “Books were enough to send him off on a high tangent, knowing he had a way to escape to other worlds.”

— V.C. Andrews

15. “Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They’re like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.”

— V.C. Andrews

16. “It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish.”

— V.C. Andrews

17. “You have to be a wonderful actress or actor to survive in this world.”

— V.C. Andrews

18. “The love they had for each other seemed to me very different from the love I saw between the parents of the few friends I had. Their love seemed more intense, more tumultuous, more passionate. Whenever they thought no one was watching they locked eyes, and they had to reach out and touch whenever they passed one another.”

— V.C. Andrews

19. “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

20. “We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.”

— V.C. Andrews

21. “Asleep you don’t feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you just don’t care about anything.”

— V.C. Andrews

22. “Cruelty comes in many forms – ignorance is one of them.”

— V.C. Andrews

23. “If you work to obtain your goal, and realize from the very beginning that nothing valuable comes easily, and still forge ahead, without a doubt you’ll reach your goal, whatever it is.”

— V.C. Andrews

24. “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

25. “Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn’t guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.”

— V.C. Andrews

26. “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

27. “Whatever doesn’t destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don’t kill us.”

— V.C. Andrews

28. “Don’t try to appeal to me when I feel sick to my stomach. I ask myself each day how I can come home and not be tired of you, and still feel as I do after so many years, and after all that has happened. Yet I go on year after year loving you, needing and trusting you. Don’t take my love and make it into something ugly!”

— V.C. Andrews

29. “We came together like long separated lovers who might never have the chance to kiss and hug again.”

— V.C. Andrews

30. “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

31. “Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn’t that I wanted it; it was that I was so used to hard rains, I couldn’t help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me.”

— V.C. Andrews

32. “What are you offering now?” I asked suspiciously. “Just me, my friendship. Just me, and the now-and-then right to kiss you, hold your hand, touch your hair, and take you to the movies, and listen to your dreams because you listen to mine, and be silly once in a while, build a past we’ll enjoy rememberings – that’s all.”

— V.C. Andrews

33. “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 spells. I didn’t want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation.”

— V.C. Andrews

34. “From all that I heard, and overheard, fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed.”

— V.C. Andrews

35. “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

36. “We’re better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.”

— V.C. Andrews

37. “It’s better not to make a promise than to make one you can’t keep.”

— V.C. Andrews

38. “There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge.”

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39. “We learned love was just like a soap bubble, so shining and bright one day, and the next day it popped. Then came the tears, the woebegone expressions, the anguish over endless cups of coffee while seated at the kitchen table with a best friend who had her own troubles, or his own troubles. But, no sooner was one love over and done with, then along came another love to start that shining soap bubble soaring again.”

— V.C. Andrews

40. “Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”

— V.C. Andrews

41. “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

42. “Why doesn’t the Good Book say honor thy children, Grandpa, why doesn’t it?”

— V.C. Andrews

43. “And we were alone. Locked in. All the lights were turned off. Around us, below us, this huge house seemed a monster, holding us in its sharp-toothed mouth. If we moved, whispered, breathed heavily, we’d be swallowed and digested.”

— V.C. Andrews

44. “No habiamos dicho ya un millon de oraciones, siempre en espera de una liberacion que no llegaba nunca? Y si las lagrimas no servian de nada y las oraciones no las oia nadie, como ibamos a llegar hasta Dios para obligarle a que hiciera algo?”

— V.C. Andrews

45. “I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants, and enchanted spells. I didn’t want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explanation.”

— V.C. Andrews

46. “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

47. “Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.”

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48. “Pain always makes me antagonistic – are you any different?”

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49. “All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.”

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50. “I don’t think anything about the human body and the way it functions is disgusting or revolting.”

— V.C. Andrews