“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
“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
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
Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it. — Melanie Benjamin Size Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I realized my life was no longer my own.” — Melanie Benjamin First time 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
“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
“What need was there for words, when we had just shared the sky?” — Melanie Benjamin Language 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
“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 Greater purpose 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
“at times I couldn’t recognize my own words, because I was still so often afraid in my life.” — Melanie Benjamin Life 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
I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and… — Melanie Benjamin Letting go 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
“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 Time 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
“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
“truly operatic scale of Anne Lindbergh’s life and marriage.” — Melanie Benjamin Marriage 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
“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
“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved… — Melanie Benjamin Life 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 Dreams 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 Copy Share Image
