"Unfeeling, uncaring, disregarding our sensitivities, or those of our mother, new instructions issued from our grandmother: 'Take a good long look children. Know that those whip marks go all the way down to your mothers feet. Thirty-three lashes, one for each year of her life. And fifteen extra lashes for each year she lived in sin with your father. Your grandfather ordered this punishment, but I was the one who applied the whip. Your mothers crimes are against God, and the moral principles society lives by. Hers was an unholy marriage, a sacrilege! A marriage that was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. And, as if that wasn't enough, they had to have children— four of them! Children spawned from the Devil! Evil from the moment of conception!'"
- Flowers in the Attic
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Flowers in the Attic Quotes
Mystery / ThrillerQuotes from the series of Flowers in the Attic Petals on the Wind If There Be Thorns Seeds of Yesterday Garden of Shadows
