Cody

“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

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

“...'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

“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, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb