“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
“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
“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
“What were those prizes to me when the one I desired the most was withheld from me?” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I ran after her, pulling at her arm; this felt like a violation more than anything else. “You can’t read my letters!… — 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
“I will fly, alone. Wearing my own pair of goggles, my view of the world just as unique, just as wonderful, and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Unlike men who needed approval, he didn’t speak loudly or use hyperbole. He simply was.” — Melanie Benjamin 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 Dear 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
“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
“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
“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
“Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?” — Melanie Benjamin Marriage 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
“Despite all that I had taught, I had learned nothing about the world.” — Melanie Benjamin Learning 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
“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
“she felt as if she was constantly holding everything in, walking around like an egg that had been glued back together, walking… — Melanie Benjamin Walking around 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
“I held my breath—but the pain was worse, jagged edges of glass ripping my heart apart,” — Melanie Benjamin Jagged edge 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
I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I… — Melanie Benjamin Closets Copy Share Image
