Malcom Foxworth Quotes

“This man, who had once moved with such energy and power that he appeared to manufacture his own light, now sat drape din darkness. Slowly, with painstaking determination, the shadows of Foxworth Hall were claiming him.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Whatever I did for Malcom, I did to please god.”
― V.C. Andrews

“He never entered a battle without knowing for sure that the odds were on his side.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I had learned from Malcom how to put a shell of myself over myself.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I can’t think of one time I have passed your bedroom and wanted to enter it.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“He would live regret this night, I thought. To regret what he had done to me and what he would make me do to her.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“This house had a way of protecting its own. It cloaked Malcom in silence as he stole through the hall, I was sure of it. The walls knew the truth although they wouldn’t speak to me.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“When it came to Corrine, Malcom’s usual frugality was forgotten.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“She has none of her blood and none of you in her and I am glad for that.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“It’s our family. And I am now as much a Foxworth as you are.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Sometimes when I overheard him speaking to Corrine, I got a chilling feeling. It was as if he thought she was his mother. Who had been fed goblets of liquid from the mythical fountain of youth until she had been returned to this infant state. In his mind, she was a baby, but she had a grown woman’s comprehension of things said to her. Especially things said to her by him.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“He often ran up those stairs like a boy of sixteen, drawn to the South wing by a love that was absolutely magnetic and overwhelming. Driven by worship for his child.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“It must’ve been a force of bitter irony to him that his wife challenged him the most.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“In his deranged thinking, Corrine was solely his creation.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“It is only God, not you, who can take her away from me now.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“The defiance that had once resided in his blue eyes gradually departed. His eyes dimmed, like candles in the night. Their once bright flames growing smaller and smaller as they lost the energy that had once fuelled him. And the shadows began to move around him.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“In his arms, I would be the perfect fit.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows