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People make the rules of society, not God.

Virginia C. Andrews

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My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.
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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.
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Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.
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What is normal? Normal is only ordinary mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
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Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue.
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you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.
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Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.
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Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
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Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.
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The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.
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We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.
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It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.
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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.
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If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings
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Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.
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I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play.
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Promises are lies wrapped in pretty ribbons -Cinnamon
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Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.
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I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter
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