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
Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with… — Melanie Benjamin Burden 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
“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved… — Melanie Benjamin Ashamed 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
“Pray remember, Alice—love isn’t all. There is family, and education, and potential. Also property, of course.” — Melanie Benjamin Education 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
“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
“I had the foresight to pick up a shard of china—the faded pink china bow of the shepherdess’s apron—and plant it in… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“My dear, simple little sister! Every mood so fleeting, yet so obvious; there was no mystery to Minnie, none at all. She… — Melanie Benjamin Little sister Copy Share Image
“The girls we'd believed to have been lost in the haze of regret and recrimination that comes with surviving in the unscrupulous… — Melanie Benjamin Business Copy Share Image
“His death notice included the mention that in 1880, he had married Alice in Wonderland. I like to think he would have… — Melanie Benjamin Death Copy Share Image
“My intellect, my wit—I’d forgotten I’d even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company… — Melanie Benjamin Humor Copy Share Image
“why Phoebe always dipped her food into tea before she ate it (she said she had soft teeth and didn’t want to… — Melanie Benjamin Marriage Copy Share Image
“She took the letters, and she threw them in the nursery hearth, stirring them up, ripping them with the poker, all the… — Melanie Benjamin Nature Copy Share Image
“she felt as if she was constantly holding everything in, walking around like an egg that had been glued back together, walking… — Melanie Benjamin Heart 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
“What I did not know was that I loved him, too. That was what I had found, what had been there all… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“No longer did I need to be responsible for my own destiny, to worry about what to do today, tomorrow, next year.… — Melanie Benjamin Destiny Copy Share Image
“Shared memories; triumphs and tragedies; the heroine doing right in the end despite temptation—all the plots of all the movies I’ve written… — Melanie Benjamin Doing right Copy Share Image
“A woman's life, always changing, accommodating, then shedding, old duties for new; one person's expectations for another until finally, victoriously, emerging stronger.… — Melanie Benjamin Life Copy Share Image
“No, this was the career I wanted; a writer could be employed for as long as she could hold a pencil; for… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“they’re pearls. And as such, should only be auctioned off to the highest bidder.” Now I was very confused. Only slaves were… — Melanie Benjamin Long ago Copy Share Image
