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1. "I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go." ~ Melanie Benjamin
2. "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 never been fair." ~ Melanie Benjamin
3. "Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?p 181" ~ Melanie Benjamin
4. "To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom...p 364" ~ Melanie Benjamin
5. "Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?" ~ Melanie Benjamin
6. "I resigned myself to looking for that face that I clearly recalled—until the day when I couldn't. It happened so suddenly." ~ Melanie Benjamin
7. "The moment before he started to suspect that there were punishments for those who dared to dream so big, to fly so high." ~ Melanie Benjamin
8. "And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence, coupling, of being absolutely worthy, absolutely necessary to the one person in the world who hadn't needed anyone. Before." ~ Melanie Benjamin
9. "I saw myself through her eyes, I saw myself through Charles's eyes, always; I never looked into a mirror and saw myself through my own. So I did, one evening after a couple of glasses of Dubonnet." ~ Melanie Benjamin
10. "Only the weak need … heroes … and heroes need … those around them to remain weak." ~ Melanie Benjamin
11. "Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it's far more cruel. You miss more, because you've known more." ~ Melanie Benjamin
12. "at times I couldn't recognize my own words, because I was still so often afraid in my life." ~ Melanie Benjamin
13. "We continued to eat without talking. Silence, after all, had been the thing that brought us together, all those years ago; he'd said he'd never met a girl so comfortable not talking, as I was. But now that I had found my voice, I wanted to use it; I had the feeling that once I started talking, I might never shut up. And to that end, I wanted to find someone who wanted to listen to me as much as I wanted to talk to him. And I knew, sadly, finally, that that someone was never going to be my husband." ~ Melanie Benjamin
14. "I also enjoyed praying at night for forgiveness, secure in the knowledge I'd not really done anything in need of forgiving." ~ Melanie Benjamin
15. "...all his smiles were just a little sad around the edges, as if he knew happiness never could last very long" ~ Melanie Benjamin
16. "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 of others who prized thought over action, laughter over brooding, they blossomed and sharpened. My tongue fairly tripped with sparkling phrases, insightful comments." ~ Melanie Benjamin
17. "But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired." ~ Melanie Benjamin
18. "pray to the God of my childhood that" ~ Melanie Benjamin
19. "Unlike men who needed approval, he didn't speak loudly or use hyperbole. He simply was." ~ Melanie Benjamin
20. "Suddenly my mood shifted, as it always seemed to do whenever I was with my family. Away from them, I could be confident, almost careless, with my words and ideas." ~ Melanie Benjamin
21. "Here, I understood, was someone who would not allow me to take comfort in inertia. Already, I was different with him. Better. More." ~ Melanie Benjamin
22. "Elisabeth was the same as ever, and I was the same as ever around her; no longer a confident college senior, I was diminished in her golden presence. In the stale air of the train car, I felt as limp and wrinkled as the sad linen dress I was wearing. While she looked as pressed and poised as a mannequin, not a wrinkle or smudge on her smart silk suit, despite the red dust blowing in through the inadequate windows." ~ Melanie Benjamin
23. "my breath sour against my fist, which I still held to my mouth as if this was a sorrow that could be stifled." ~ Melanie Benjamin
24. "But Christmas was home, was safe, was the idea of family that I carried around with me the rest of the year, even as I recognized it didn't quite match up with reality." ~ Melanie Benjamin
25. "Sorrow was my constant companion, even though I no longer wept. It was the shadow that followed me on sunny days, the weight pressing down upon my spirits on cloudy ones." ~ Melanie Benjamin
26. "Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it." ~ Melanie Benjamin
27. "His eyes were so blue as to be startling; I decided I'd never seen blue eyes before, until that moment. They were the color of morning, the color of the ocean; the color of the sky." ~ Melanie Benjamin
28. "I flashed a grateful smile at my brother for giving me this gift of a self I had just recently begun to mourn." ~ Melanie Benjamin
29. "No one was going to come looking for me, after all—and I wasn't entirely sure how I felt about that." ~ Melanie Benjamin
30. "Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason." ~ Melanie Benjamin
31. "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." ~ Melanie Benjamin
32. "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 and distance to speak for them instead. How dangerous that was! How easy it must be to misinterpret a sigh or a look." ~ Melanie Benjamin
33. "Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it." ~ Melanie Benjamin
34. "I still can't stop marveling that this same boy chose me; and I'm glad that I can't, for we should rejoice in being seen, needed. Loved." ~ Melanie Benjamin
35. "For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home...for the rest of my life, watching all of you go off one by one." ~ Melanie Benjamin
36. "My dear, simple little sister! Every mood so fleeting, yet so obvious; there was no mystery to Minnie, none at all. She loved whom she knew, distrusted everyone else, and shared her emotions, her thoughts, as freely as they occurred to her." ~ Melanie Benjamin
37. "...'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big." ~ Melanie Benjamin
38. "Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that...I could survive Colonel Wood's cruelty if my heart, my mind, had shrunk to a size designed to absorb my own troubles only." ~ Melanie Benjamin
39. "Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60" ~ Melanie Benjamin
40. "Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering." ~ Melanie Benjamin
41. "Dana taught me that the ability to grieve deeply also meant that a person had the capacity to love deeply, laugh deeply, live deeply -- and that this was a capacity to be cherished." ~ Melanie Benjamin
42. "reverently that I knew it was a part of him in a way, it turned out, I could never be." ~ Melanie Benjamin
43. "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 denied me mine." ~ Melanie Benjamin

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Why "FIXATE" when you can "FIX HATE"? LOVE trumps hate all day...it's not even a competition! When you learn how to play the leading role in your life, then you can make peace with hate & move into your joy. I choose to fix the hate instead of fixating on hurt & pain."
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