Home / Quotes / Quote by Melanie Benjamin

Quote by Melanie Benjamin

“I understand, Bill. Because I tell myself a lot of stories to help me sleep at night. Stories about how Babe was my dearest friend, and I never betrayed her. Stories about how you and I had a great love, not just an occasional roll in the hay whenever she was out of town. Stories about how wonderful life was back then, when none of us told each other the truth, but so what? It was all so beautiful, wasn’t it? It was all so lovely and gracious. Not like it is now.”

Quote by Melanie Benjamin

Book:The Swans of Fifth Avenue

Work

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Melanie Benjamin

Melanie Benjamin is an American author renowned for her historical novels. Her works often tell historical events from a female perspective, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

You May Also Like

“See, that's the problem with putting too much stock in the old days. You remember all the GOOD stuff, but you forget about the time you got spanked by your best friend's mom.”

Memories Humorous Nostalgia

Book:Old School

Source: Old School

“The older they get, the better they get when they were younger”

Perspective Nostalgia Maturation

Book:Ball Four

Source: Ball Four

“We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it that I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.”

Memories Nostalgia Love Hurts

Book:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

Source: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.”

Love Regret Pride Listening Longing Nostalgia Confessions

Author:James Baldwin

“At his age, it can be overwhelming and painful to harbor a thought accompanied by too much nostalgia. Not that he wanted to. Mabel, in her final years, had stopped listening to music. The songs of her teenage years brought her back to people and feelings of that time - people she could never see again and sensations that were no longer coming. It was too much for her. There are people who can manage such things. There are those of us who can no longer walk, but can close our eyes and remember a summer hike through a field, or the feeling of cool grass beneath our feet, and smile. Who still have the courage to embrace the past, and give it life and a voice in the present. But Mabel was not one of those people. Maybe she lacked that very form of courage. Or maybe her humanity was so complete, so expansive, that she would be crushed by her capacity to imagine the love that was gone.”

Memories Aging Nostalgia

Book:Norwegian by Night

Source: Norwegian by Night

“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”

Death Blood Revenge Vengeance Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides An Eye For An Eye The Ultimate Price

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“She walked down the lawn and surveyed the world as they'd both seen it--the wild limbs of the leaning apple tree, the golden-brown evening sky, the black silhouettes of the mountains. The trunk and the branches of the tree had bent over the years, under the weight of the heavy fruit. One of the biggest branches had grown down from the canopy of the leaves, all the way to the ground and straight along the grass...the end of that same branch had begun growing up again, at a right angle, the wood bending toward the sky.”

Grief Loneliness Nostalgia Unrequited Love The Rope Swing Pauly S Girl

Author:Jonathan Corcoran

“Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone a little wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.”

Book:The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Source: The Stories of John Cheever (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

“Il mondo in cui viviamo non è altro che uno specchio che riflette un mondo nascosto sotto la sua superficie argentea, un paese dove il tempo è solo un dettaglio insignificante, senza nessun potere. Spero di ritrovarti là.”

World Death Nostalgia Friend Mirror

Book:La Figlia del Mercante di Seta

Source: La Figlia del Mercante di Seta

“And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.”

Social Media Nostalgia Privacy Social Media Behaviour

Author:Aysha Taryam