But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get… — Melanie Benjamin Dear 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
“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 Charles 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
“What were those prizes to me when the one I desired the most was withheld from me?” — Melanie Benjamin 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
“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
“Only the weak need … heroes … and heroes need … those around them to remain weak.” — Melanie Benjamin 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 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
“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 Continued 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
“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 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
“... afraid of everything because nothing truly terrible had happened to me, yet.” — Melanie Benjamin Afraid Copy Share Image
“To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom... p 364” — Melanie Benjamin Marriage Copy Share Image
“At the age of twenty-five, he had conquered not only the entire planet but all the sky above it.” — Melanie Benjamin Conquered 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 Suddenly 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
“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
“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
“What I did not know was that I loved him, too. That was what I had found, what had been there all… — Melanie Benjamin Loved 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
“No, this was the career I wanted; a writer could be employed for as long as she could hold a pencil; for… — Melanie Benjamin Actress 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
“...'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.” — Melanie Benjamin Chick Copy Share Image
“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 Learned Copy Share Image
“I held my breath—but the pain was worse, jagged edges of glass ripping my heart apart,” — Melanie Benjamin Cried 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
“What need was there for words, when we had just shared the sky?” — Melanie Benjamin Language 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
“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
“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
“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 Truth Seeking 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 Called Horrible Copy Share Image
“His eyes were so blue as to be startling; I decided I’d never seen blue eyes before, until that moment. They were… — Melanie Benjamin Blue eyes Copy Share Image
