If There Be Thorns Quotes

“Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“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, If There Be Thorns

“Seek the tarnish and you shall find”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“Being a good listener is the perfect way to avoid answering questions you’d rather ignore.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“If there were no shadows, how could we see the sunlight?”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“...there has to be darkness if there is to be light.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“Life is always like that—twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. So, be everlastingly grateful for those rare two seconds and appreciate; appreciate what good you can find, no matter what the cost.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“we could survive the worst, doesn’t it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“has to be darkness if there is to be light.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“I loved her in an odd kind of way, the way you love winter when you’re hot in summer.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“You snatch from life what you can while you are young, for if you wait for better times to come tomorrow, you wait in vain.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“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, If There Be Thorns

“you used to do that. If you hid your face, you thought we couldn’t see you just because you couldn’t see us.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“Si no existiesen las sombras ¿Cómo podríamos ver la luz del sol?”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“There is no hell but that which we make for ourselves. There is no heaven but that which we build between us.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“Flickering ghostly in the pale light of the rising moon were the will-o’-the-wisp regrets that told me daily I could and should have done differently. But I am what I have always been, a person ruled by instincts. It seems I can never change.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“The world belongs to those who know how to speak well, and fortunes are made by those who write well,”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“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, If There Be Thorns

“Dios impuso a los hombres el deber de dominar a las mujeres que son, fundamentalmente, débiles y estúpidas.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“La oscuridad era como estar ciego o muerto”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“Nobody ever does anything for anyone else unless it gives them even more.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“To read is to learn and to grow.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“It took special words to put across subtle ideas,”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns

“pleasingly plump” figure.”
― V.C. Andrews, If There Be Thorns