Melanie Benjamin Quotes

“Days are very mysterious things, of course. 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.”

“It is not profitable to long too much for the past, particularly if it is not your own.”

“It's not that you are too small, my little chick, but rather that the world is too big.”

“Dreams may have been the paintings on my walls, but doubts and fears were the bars on my windows.”

“It's impossible to be absolutely honest with oneself.”

“Only the weak need heroes and heroes need those around them to remain weak.”

“In the twentieth century — the prosaic, unromantic twentieth century — wives were more highly prized than mistresses.”