Ellen

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

“Never before had I imagined leaving home, but that wasn't because of lack of desire, only lack of possibility.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

“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, Alice I Have Been