Cody

“...'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

“Despite all that I had taught, I had learned nothing about the world.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

“On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.”
― Lori Lansens, The Girls

“We are in receipt of numerous communications concerning the Harper's Ferry affair, and the various topics connected with it...
We must decline to publish them all,-simply because we see no possible good which they could accomplish.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb