"I couldn't stop screaming, not even when she dragged me off to the bed and threw the twins aside when they tried to protect me. Cory went for her leg with his teeth. She sent him reeling with one blow. I went then, my hysteria quelled, into the bathroom, where I, too, was ordered to strip. I stood there looking at her diamond brooch, the one she always wore, counting the stones, seventeen tiny ones. Her gray taffeta was patterned with fine red lines, and the white collar was hand-crocheted. She fixed her eyes on the short stubble of hair the scarf about my head revealed with an expression of gloating satisfaction."
- 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
