My Sweet Audrina Quotes

“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Blood ties are not supposed to be chains.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“There were shadows in the corners and whispers on the stairs and time was irrelevant as honesty.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Men are hateful, contrary creatures who say they want goddesses to put on pedestals. Once they have them up there, they rip off the halo, tear off the gown, slice off the wings so they can’t fly and then kick the pedestal away so the woman falls at his feet and he can scream out as he kicks her, tramp!—or worse.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Shadows in the house put shadows in the mind.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“I lay so still in the gloom I could hear the house breathe, and the boards of the floors whispered, conniving a way to keep me here forever.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“There was a war going on in our house, a silent war that sounded no guns, and the bodies that fell were only wishes that died and the bullets were only words and the blood that spilled was always called pride.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Don’t judge women by what you see in paintings and statues. Judge them only by what you yourself know about the women in your life. The day any man understands any woman will be the day the world comes to an end. Men are hateful, contrary creatures who say they want goddesses to put on pedestals. Once they have them up there, they rip off the halo, tear off the gown, slice off the wings so they can’t fly and then kick the pedestal away so the woman falls at his feet and he can scream out as he kicks her, tramp!—or worse.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Her mind was a labyrinth of lies, and I was caught in its twisted maze.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“You are like your mother, free with your hate and spite, stingy with your love.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“There’s something strange in this house that holds all memories and makes them part of the future. This house contains too many sorrows to ever let any of us have any joy.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Trying to cleanse me of my filth and at the same time letting me know that I would never be cleansed.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Yes, I love you.” I said without hesitation. “It may not be the kind of love you want, but maybe one day soon, you’ll be surprised.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Life is a fragile tapestry, easily torn by the hands of fate.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“What will you do with your talent then? Bury it under the dishes you wash and the babies you bear like your mother did?”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“You are so young and so old. I look at you sometimes and see someone haunted.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Normal? What is normal? In my opinion normal is only ordinary, mediocre. Life belongs to the rare exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Tell yourself each day of your life that you escaped by the skin of your teeth from becoming exactly what my father is.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Your love is a capricious thing, Audrina.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“I pity the girl I used to be for believing so wholeheartedly in you.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“There’s something wrong in this house. Something rules here that keeps everyone from being normal or happy.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“We bred a viper in our midst.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“How could I forgive him when I could never forget.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“I even tried to make her death pretty.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“Had I known that I was the first but no longer the best?”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“How could he know what was best for me? He was a man. How could any man know what it felt like to be a girl? Used and defiled.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“In the end, every conflict between a man and a woman came down to this.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“God didn’t care, papa. And that’s the truth of it. Isn’t it?”

“God is not that cruel, Audrina. God is merciful when you give him a chance. But one has to do what is best for ones self when he has so many to take of.”

“Then what good is he, papa? What good?”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina

“And God was supposed to be looking out for her, wasn’t he? She prayed to him and he didn’t hear. He just sat up there in his heaven and pretended everything was just fine in the woods when he knew. He knew. He was glad another proud Whitefern girl was being assaulted. Because God is a man too.”
― V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina