“Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
― Flowers in the Attic
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
― Flowers in the Attic
“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.”
― Flowers in the Attic
― Flowers in the Attic
“- ¿Por qué no gritas, mamá? ¿Por qué no lo mandas a la puta mierda? ¿Por qué no le envenenas la comida? ¿Por qué no le cortas toda la ropa con las tijeras del jardinero? ¿Por qué no le pides el divorcio, mamá? ¿Por qué no dejas de mimetizarte con el sofá, con las cortinas, con el papel tapiz, camaleón estúpido, y no sales de ahí, de dónde sea que estés y lo obligas a mirarte a la cara?”
― Sacrificios humanos
― Sacrificios humanos
“El que dejara de tratarme de usted me asustó. Esa familiaridad que a veces adoptan los hombres mayores y que no sabes si es porque te ven como a una hija boba, porque te quieren meter la mano o por ambas cosas.”
― Sacrificios humanos
― Sacrificios humanos
“People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around.”
― Flowers in the Attic
― Flowers in the Attic
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