Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)

by V.C. Andrews

To

believe in God is a good thing, a right thing. But when you reinforce your belief with words you take from the Old Testament that you seek out, and interpret in the ways that suit your needs best, that is hypocrisy,

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

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.

you don’t set your goals firmly in mind, and strive always to reach them, then you never do.

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.