“If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings” IfsBirdWingsCrush Author:Virginia C. Andrews
“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.” IfsFeelsLucky Book:If there be thorns Source: If there be thorns
“Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.” IfsBookWealthPowerfulTalentChangedOrdinaryEnchantedGiddyHealth And Beauty Author:Virginia C. Andrews
“Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if you had fame, it was not enough, and if you had wealth as well, it was still not enough, and if you had fame, wealth, and also love ... still it was not enough - boy, did I feel sorry for him.” IfsFeelsWellsStillsEnoughWealthBoysWrittenDoorsFameSorrySorry For Him Author:Virginia C. Andrews
“It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.” IfsThinkingLongStoriesNamesSunSawsColorFlowerWindowInspiredTitlesAppropriateSunshineCopiesYellowJournalAtticsMemorandum Book:Flowers in the Attic Source: Flowers in the Attic
“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.” IfsFirstsLongDiesEvilFriendshipWallDevilAngelSaintLove And FriendshipSpawn Book:Petals on the wind Source: Petals on the wind
