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
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are… — 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
“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
“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
But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get… — Melanie Benjamin 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Only the weak need … heroes … and heroes need … those around them to remain weak.” — Melanie Benjamin 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
“the Germans all hate the Kaiser and there’ll most likely be a civil war, instead.” — Melanie Benjamin Civil war 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 Copy Share Image
“...all his smiles were just a little sad around the edges, as if he knew happiness never could last very long” — Melanie Benjamin Happiness Copy Share Image
“I held my breath—but the pain was worse, jagged edges of glass ripping my heart apart,” — Melanie Benjamin 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
“dreams may have been the paintings on my walls, but doubts and fears were the bars on my windows.” — Melanie Benjamin Dream 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
“Unlike men who needed approval, he didn’t speak loudly or use hyperbole. He simply was.” — Melanie Benjamin Approval Copy Share Image
“THE BEST TIME TO LEAVE A PARTY IS WHEN THE PARTY’S JUST BEGINNING. —Diana Vreeland” — Melanie Benjamin Best time 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 Copy Share Image
“Only the weak need... heroes... and heroes need... those around them to remain weak. You're not weak.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Tonight, all I want to do is dream of that movie. Is that bad? That I’d rather dream of a movie than… — Melanie Benjamin Bad dream Copy Share Image
“Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more.” — Melanie Benjamin 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 ran after her, pulling at her arm; this felt like a violation more than anything else. “You can’t read my letters!… — Melanie Benjamin Violation 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 Questioning 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
“All of this was mine, simply for agreeing to marry a man I did not love but who was, in the end,… — 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
“I flashed a grateful smile at my brother for giving me this gift of a self I had just recently begun to… — Melanie Benjamin Brother Copy Share Image
“For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home...for the rest of my life, watching all of you go… — 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 Copy Share Image
