“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
“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
“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
“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
I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Tonight, all I want to do is dream of that movie. Is that bad? That I’d rather dream of a movie than… — Melanie Benjamin Bad dream Copy Share Image
“Only the weak need... heroes... and heroes need... those around them to remain weak. You're not weak.” — Melanie Benjamin 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
“Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else… — Melanie Benjamin Family Copy Share Image
“as the second hand continued to go around again and again; it would never stop, they would never stop coming, all the… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want… — Melanie Benjamin Books Copy Share Image
“Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that...I could survive… — Melanie Benjamin Identity Copy Share Image
“Sorrow was my constant companion, even though I no longer wept. It was the shadow that followed me on sunny days, the… — Melanie Benjamin Sorrow Copy Share Image
I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“When I was six, I had known nothing. Now that I was seven, however, I couldn’t help but be impressed by how… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“THE BEST TIME TO LEAVE A PARTY IS WHEN THE PARTY’S JUST BEGINNING. —Diana Vreeland” — Melanie Benjamin Best time Copy Share Image
“Unlike men who needed approval, he didn’t speak loudly or use hyperbole. He simply was.” — Melanie Benjamin Approval Copy Share Image
“Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant? p 181” — Melanie Benjamin Children Copy Share Image
“Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“...all his smiles were just a little sad around the edges, as if he knew happiness never could last very long” — Melanie Benjamin Happiness Copy Share Image
“dreams may have been the paintings on my walls, but doubts and fears were the bars on my windows.” — Melanie Benjamin Dream Copy Share Image
“I listened to them ruin Mr. Dodgson for me—for us—forever. They called him horrible names; they begged Papa to dismiss him from… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I held my breath—but the pain was worse, jagged edges of glass ripping my heart apart,” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Only the weak need … heroes … and heroes need … those around them to remain weak.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“my breath sour against my fist, which I still held to my mouth as if this was a sorrow that could be… — Melanie Benjamin Grief Copy Share Image
“Here, I understood, was someone who would not allow me to take comfort in inertia. Already, I was different with him. Better.… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“the Germans all hate the Kaiser and there’ll most likely be a civil war, instead.” — Melanie Benjamin Civil war Copy Share Image
“Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?” — Melanie Benjamin Husbands Copy Share Image
“What were those prizes to me when the one I desired the most was withheld from me?” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I saw myself through her eyes, I saw myself through Charles’s eyes, always; I never looked into a mirror and saw myself… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason. — Melanie Benjamin Age Copy Share Image
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Never before had I imagined leaving home, but that wasn't because of lack of desire, only lack of possibility.” — Melanie Benjamin Desire Copy Share Image
“Pray remember, Alice—love isn’t all. There is family, and education, and potential. Also property, of course.” — Melanie Benjamin Education Copy Share Image
Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“reverently that I knew it was a part of him in a way, it turned out, I could never be.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I resigned myself to looking for that face that I clearly recalled—until the day when I couldn’t. It happened so suddenly.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
