Quotes from Michelle Moran

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.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

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.

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

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.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

Things change, and not always for the better.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

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.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

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.

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.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

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

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

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.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

My love is unique and none can rival her . . . Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.