Melanie Benjamin Quotes

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• What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours.…
• When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
• There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult…
• I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to…
• Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had…
• My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances…
• Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.
• But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.
• I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I…
• Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.
• Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had…

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