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
I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and… — Melanie Benjamin Decide 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 Seven 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
“As awful as Bacon’s scenario sounded, at least she had some kind of vision for her future. Whereas I—fanciful thoughts of scandalous… — Melanie Benjamin Actor 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 Darkest Thoughts 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 Constructs 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
“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
“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
“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 I knew, as I had always known but somehow forgotten to remember in these past years, that I could never have… — Melanie Benjamin Forgotten Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I realized my life was no longer my own.” — Melanie Benjamin First time Copy Share Image
Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it. — Melanie Benjamin Size Copy Share Image
“at times I couldn’t recognize my own words, because I was still so often afraid in my life.” — Melanie Benjamin Afraid 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 Knew 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 Understood Copy Share Image
“The moment before he started to suspect that there were punishments for those who dared to dream so big, to fly so… — Melanie Benjamin Time 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
“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
“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
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are… — Melanie Benjamin Difficult 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
Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him… — Melanie Benjamin Common 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
