Garden of Shadows Quotes

“My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Cruelty comes in many forms — ignorance is one of them.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“El Señor nos lo ha dado, el Señor nos lo ha quitado”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“That night, the last drops of love drained from my heart and I became only the instrument of the lord.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“What had I done? What had I done? Had God misunderstood my prayers?”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Once again my life was painted grey. As it and been before I came to Foxworth Hall. As I had feared it always would be. But I no longer feared grey. I had become one with it. It was the only colour I wore, it was the colour of my hair, the colour of my eyes, the colour of my hopes. The colour of my life.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“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

“We will leave your curses at the door.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I knew the wrath of God had fallen hard and completely on the house of Foxworth. Every shadow, the ghost of every descendant, moaned in the wings.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Foxworth Hall had been turned into a tomb.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“It was a day without promise of sun, a mirror of my life.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Once again my world had turned utterly, irrevocably grey.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I grieved. I grieved for the loss of my Mal. I grieved for the bright happy summer where all my children had been around me, joyous.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“You have brought the wrath of God down on the house of Foxworth!”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I smiled slightly and lifted my hand. He took it and in that handshake, made a covenant with me and with god almighty. It was the most reassuring thing that had happened to me in years.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Watching the black smoke colour the sky black. Colour all my days black from then on.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“My love had made her mine. At last my love had created something beautiful and had been rewarded with the brightest flower in all of Virginia.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Womanhood brings pain along with its joys.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman’s was not mine and”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“Pero en alguien tan lleno de vida, amor y esperanza, la sombra de la muerte no se detiene por mucho tiempo, al contrario de lo que nos ocurre a quienes carecemos ya de esperanzas y sueños”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I grieved like a desert grieves; a desert that allows nothing to grow, a desert where the only passion is the blowing of sand, the shrouding of all that lives. Once again my world had turned utterly, irrevocably gray.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“We’ll follow your shoddy plan but I will carry it through.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I would wipe that confident smile off his face yet.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“What a trusting young fool she was.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I couldn’t let my disappointment get in the way of my intelligence.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

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

“This is not our bedroom. This is my bedroom.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I dreamt that night of a dollhouse. A dollhouse filled with such sin that it emanated its own hellfires.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“I would have to turn myself into a grey stone fortress lest those charms pierce my heart and claim me for the devils work.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows