Top 72 Michelle Moran Quotes
#1. The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!
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#2. These will be my last moments of peace ... From now on, my love ... will bring nothing but chaos.
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#3. You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so ...
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#4. With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.
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#6. Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
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#7. And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.
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#8. Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.
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#9. We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.
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#11. But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.
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#12. After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
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#13. But it is not an option for women like myself and Rose Bertin. Men want wives who are sweet and good with children, not women who plan and watch the accounts
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#14. And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then - if you allow it - everything else.
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#15. I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.
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#16. After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.
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#17. What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.
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#18. Customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,
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#19. I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau
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#20. History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.
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#21. If the gods cannot recognize your names," she warned, "they will never hear your prayers.
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#22. Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.
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#23. That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.
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#25. Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.
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#26. And once we die, what we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. [Pericles]
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#27. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.
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#29. I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.
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#30. I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.
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#31. Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner
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#32. This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.
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#33. My love is unique and none can rival her ... Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.
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#35. Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.
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#36. The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility and clergy should be taxed as well.
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#37. Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.
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#38. My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.
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#39. Nefertiti!" I shouted. "Meritaten!" How could they both be gone? Where could they be? I rounded the corner to the window of Appearences, then opened the door.
The blood had already spread across the tiles.
"Nefertiti!" I screamed, and my voice echoed through the palace.
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#40. You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.
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#41. Let it be a reminder that nothing in this world can last."
"Even pain," I reply.
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#42. I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.
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#43. When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.
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#44. The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.
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#45. I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.
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#46. Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science.
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#48. She refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.
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#49. I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.
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#50. We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.
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#51. We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.
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#52. The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like.
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#53. I can wait. I am in love with you, Marie. You don't have to say it yet. I know you like to think things through. Make plans. But plan on this. I want to marry you.
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#54. In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.
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#55. I let myself be led out, but at the doors of the Great Hall, I turned. "I will never forgive this," I swore, and Nefertiti knew it was meant for her. "I will never forgive this so long as the sun sets on Amarna!" I screamed.
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#56. You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.
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#57. I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.
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#58. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
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#59. Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.
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#60. We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.
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#61. But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.
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#62. Our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!
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#63. A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks.
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#64. Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?
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#65. Weigh each heart on its own," I shouted, "for how many of us would pass into the Afterlife if Osiris weighed our hearts with those of our akhu?
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#66. Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute ...
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#68. Death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.
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#69. I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back.
But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.
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#70. You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.
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#71. The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts.
'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her.
But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.
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#72. Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.
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