Michelle Moran famous quotes

03-24-2025

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.
-- Michelle Moran

#People #Historical #Fiction
What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.
-- Michelle Moran

#Thinking #Different #Prepared
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.
-- Michelle Moran

#Memories #Next #Moments
These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.
-- Michelle Moran

#Lasts #Chaos #Moments
You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.
-- Michelle Moran

#Love You #Fighting #Long
Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .
-- Michelle Moran

#Men #Her Beauty #Might
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. â€”MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
-- Michelle Moran

#Rights #Lafayette #Natural
there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change
-- Michelle Moran
...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.
-- Michelle Moran
And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.
-- Michelle Moran

#Enemy
I don't think unhappiness is fated.
-- Michelle Moran

#Thinking #Unhappiness
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. â€”SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
-- Michelle Moran

#Men #Wife #Doe
You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.
-- Michelle Moran
Even in the most wretched life, thereâ€™s hope.
-- Michelle Moran
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Egypt #Trying #Gone
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Brave #Young #Staring
My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.
-- Michelle Moran

#Heart #Unique #Love Is
the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II
-- Michelle Moran

#Shining #Sun
I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.
-- Michelle Moran

#Grieving #Stills
Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?
-- Michelle Moran

#Water #People #Doe
Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.
-- Michelle Moran

#Forever #Lasts
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Animal #Bird #Nests
I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.
-- Michelle Moran

#Destiny #Names #Wonder
But 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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Life #Sorry #Character
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Queens #Kings #Soul
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Make You Smile #Want #Guessing
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Cat #Giving #Use
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.
-- Michelle Moran

#Children #Men #Thinking
But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.
-- Michelle Moran

#Heart #Stubborn #Foolish
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.
-- Michelle Moran

#Moving Forward #Moving #Purpose
Things change, and not always for the better.
-- Michelle Moran

#Things Change
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...
-- Michelle Moran

#Oasis #Wish #Desert

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