Words of Wisdom

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V.C. Andrews books are filled with words of wisdom. They make you happy, sad, sometimes mad but they were definitely worth taking a gander at. Maybe you'll find words to live and love by.

Wicked Forest

• As with the answers to so many new questions about my life and my future, it waited out there for me like the fruit on the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. Pluck it at your own peril, Willow De Beers, I thought. And hope that, like poor Adam and Eve, you don't get driven out of paradise.
• Maybe the truth was that the dead lose interest in the living and not, as everyone thought, the other way around. We stop visiting graveyards and looking at tombstones after a while, don't we? We put away our family albums. We forget the sounds of voices we once loved.
• And sleep, like the blanket of clouds outside the window, shut off the stars, even the ones I carried with me forever.
• Make him sleep in a separate bedroom so he has to get permission to enter twice. At least once a month, have him wear your nightgown and you wear his pajamas to bed. --Advice for newlyweds.
• That deep darkness in her heart was loneliness. And nothing she had bought and nothing she had been given would take it away.
• Love is like a good book: You turn the page to go on and wish it would never end. I turned the page.

More to come...