“truly operatic scale of Anne Lindbergh’s life and marriage.” — Melanie Benjamin Marriage Copy Share Image
“Despite all that I had taught, I had learned nothing about the world.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“What need was there for words, when we had just shared the sky?” — Melanie Benjamin Language Copy Share Image
Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering. — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it. — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“ashamed of it even as I craved it. “Oh, she does! There’s a party tomorrow,” — Melanie Benjamin Ashamed Copy Share Image
“I also enjoyed praying at night for forgiveness, secure in the knowledge I’d not really done anything in need of forgiving.” — Melanie Benjamin Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“I will fly, alone. Wearing my own pair of goggles, my view of the world just as unique, just as wonderful, and… — Melanie Benjamin Goggles Copy Share Image
“...'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home...for the rest of my life, watching all of you go… — Melanie Benjamin Destiny Copy Share Image
“I flashed a grateful smile at my brother for giving me this gift of a self I had just recently begun to… — Melanie Benjamin Brother Copy Share Image
“There had been so many of them, so pale and thin and dirty, but Mamma had said we weren’t to feel sorry… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“All of this was mine, simply for agreeing to marry a man I did not love but who was, in the end,… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence,… — Melanie Benjamin Aviation Copy Share Image
“That's just it, don't you see? I don't want to be taken care of! I don't want be hidden away, a burden!… — Melanie Benjamin Burden Copy Share Image
My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in… — Melanie Benjamin Adults Copy Share Image
“And I did not speak German well; I found the language harsh and guttural, my ear simply couldn’t find it pleasing, and… — Melanie Benjamin German language Copy Share Image
“Dana taught me that the ability to grieve deeply also meant that a person had the capacity to love deeply, laugh deeply,… — Melanie Benjamin Capacity to love Copy Share Image
“Unlike men, women got less sintimental as we aged, I was discovering. We cried enough, when we were young; vessels overflowing with… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Suddenly my mood shifted, as it always seemed to do whenever I was with my family. Away from them, I could be… — Melanie Benjamin Family Copy Share Image
“We are in receipt of numerous communications concerning the Harper's Ferry affair, and the various topics connected with it... We must decline… — Melanie Benjamin Communication Copy Share Image
“JEALOUSY IS A TERRIBLE THING. It keeps you up at night, it demands tremendous energy in order to remain alive, and so… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth was the same as ever, and I was the same as ever around her; no longer a confident college senior, I… — Melanie Benjamin Fitness Copy Share Image
“There was something about his eyes—the color of the periwinkle that grew at the base of the trees in the Meadow, such… — Melanie Benjamin Periwinkle Copy Share Image
“My stomach was so full of butterflies and other insects with busy, brushing wings—entirely appropriate under the circumstances, I couldn’t help but… — Melanie Benjamin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Who was this woman before me, her face imprinted with the expectations of others? I was Mom. I was Wife. I was… — Melanie Benjamin Life Copy Share Image
“desire to know more. I hope my novel accomplishes this, and I highly recommend the following books that I found very useful:… — Melanie Benjamin Books Copy Share Image
“And I knew, as I had always known but somehow forgotten to remember in these past years, that I could never have… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“And this new story; he had an idea for a title. He’d heard a sailor on leave, during the war, tell another… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“To my children, I was just Mom. That was all. And before that, I had been Charles’s wife, the bereaved mother of… — Melanie Benjamin Children Copy Share Image
“Mother shook her head impatiently. 'You need to...stop looking for heroes, Anne.' Her speech was slow, slurred, but understandable. 'Only the weak… — Melanie Benjamin Marriage Copy Share Image
“To my children, I was just Mom. That was all. And before that, I had been Charles’s wife, the bereaved mother of… — Melanie Benjamin Children Copy Share Image
“And before that, I had been Charles’s wife, the bereaved mother of the slain child. That was all. But before that, I… — Melanie Benjamin Children Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I realized my life was no longer my own.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“No one was going to come looking for me, after all—and I wasn’t entirely sure how I felt about that.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“didn’t like this line of questioning, because it was too much like the questions I asked myself at night, alone in my… — Melanie Benjamin Questioning Copy Share Image
