{"author":"V.C. Andrews","author_id":"V.C.+Andrews","total_quotes":67,"quotes":[{"text":"And when I fall in love,” I began, 'I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["build","clouds","dreamers","dreaming","dreams","fall-in-love","feet","firm","grass","grounded","heads","idealists","ideals","illusions","love","lover","mountain","purple","realist","reality","sky","worlds"],"id":24862,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["2","compassion","human-beings","landry","life","others","ourselves","pearl-in-the-mist","thoughtful","v-c-andrews","worrying"],"id":27191,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["dreaming","dreams","happiness","hill","hoping","longing","mountain","mountains","satisfy","striving"],"id":28396,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["2","courage","feelings","inspiration","landry","pearl-in-the-mist","right","v-c-andrews","wisdom","worth-it","wrong"],"id":34568,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["childhood"],"id":40059,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["inspirational-life"],"id":46619,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["admiration","admired","incest","love","loving","thankfulness","unadmired","unloved"],"id":46727,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["becoming-a-woman","bones","brain","flesh","mature","maturity","mountains","older","teens","wisdom"],"id":54658,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["2","destroy","hardships","kill","landry","pearl-in-the-mist","stronger","survival","tough","v-c-andrews"],"id":80080,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"...I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was young and full of hopes and aspirations, I didn't know I would get hurt so often. I think I'll get tough and won't ache again, then my fragile shell shatters, and again, symbolically, my blood is spilled with the tears I shed. I pull myself back together again, go on, convince myself there is a reason for everything, and at some point in my life it will be disclosed. And when I have what I want, I hope to god it stays long enough to let me know I have it, and it wont hurt when it goes, for I don't expect it to stay, not now. I'm like a doughnut, always being punch out in the middle, and constantly I go around searching for the missing piece, and on and on it goes, never ending, only beginning...","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["innocence","most-relevant-i-ever-read"],"id":97582,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}