"I had wanted to live forever as a……" — Melanie Benjamin
"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 had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past."
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11 Quotes by Melanie Benjamin
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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they…
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When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers…
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I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on…
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Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden…
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My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant,…
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Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.
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But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I…
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Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.
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Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had…
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