Quotes from Michelle Moran

We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.

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.

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.

death is quick. What is important is the happiness that came before it.

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

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 and the right time. While Marie certainly would not have considered herself lucky to have lived through such a devastating period, history is fortunate that she remained still for long enough to record the events that raged on around her.

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

For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. 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. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

This isn't how I imagined our lives would be when I was Queen of Libya and you King of Armenia.

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

On a wall of her burial chamber, Ramesses summed up his love for her as such: "My love is unique and none can rival her ... Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.

Then he'd given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.

trunk. "Only you and Octavian can endure it. Our mother would never

A religious people is a people with purpose. So if the grain fails, or the aqueducts turn muddy, it can be Jupiter's fault, not his.

perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. —THOMAS JEFFERSON

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. —JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

Vitruvius discovered that the length of a man's ear is one-third of the length of his face, and the length of a man's foot is one-sixth of his height. As a child, I was asked to measure the distance from the tip of my head to the floor and divide it by the distance from my belly button to the ground. The number I came up with is the same number that nearly everyone will. A ratio of 1.618.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles. –JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU