"In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people."

“I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. This was in the late '70s, early '80s, so it wasn't like today, where you kind of know all about the industry. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.”

“I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.”

“When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly.”

“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.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.1319, Broadway Books

“I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.”

“The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.”

“At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.”

“Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.”