Defeated Quote by V.C. Andrews

“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that…

— V.C. Andrews

“Let’s go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won’t be disappointed.”

— V.C. Andrews

“Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I”

— Emily Brontë

“Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there’s never a guarantee that their second attempt will…

— J.C. Reed

“Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will. She stared…

— Jojo Moyes

“It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain.…

— David Baldacci

“Sheila, you’ve got to hang on. All this is just an increased power to think—to visualize, to handle data and the dreams you yourself…

— Poul Anderson

“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”

— V.C. Andrews

“She keeps herself in a constant state of unhappiness, so she is never disappointed by life.”

— Judy Reene Singer

“She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.”

— Peadar Ó Guilín

“I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a…

— Gwenda Bond

“I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completely surprised. 'And for…

— Leslie Morgan Steiner