“And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“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, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“I don't think unhappiness is fated.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“You mean we won't get to run through burning buildings?" I could see he wanted to laugh, but instead he watched me intently. "What? Why are you staring at me?"
"I'm not staring. I'm observing."
I smiled through my tears. "And what do you observe?"
He brushed his lips against my ear. "A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular. A woman who can't return to the land of her birth, but is wlcome to cross the seas and rebuild Alexandria in mine. And a woman who has suffered enough in Rome and deserves happiness for a change. Will you come to Mauretania and be my queen?"
He drew back to look at me, but I held him closer. "Yes."
"Just yes?"
I nodded and pressed my lips against his.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“This isn’t how I imagined our lives would be when I was Queen of Libya and you King of Armenia.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“Then he’d given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
“trunk. “Only you and Octavian can endure it. Our mother would never”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Cleopatra's Daughter
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“It will be no greater miracle that brings us into another world to live forever with our dearest friends than that which has brought us into this one to live a lifetime with them.”
― Jeff Wheeler, quote from The Hollow Crown
“I am pinned to my seat with pity and horror and a weird, twisted affection laced with longing and traces of lust.”
― Michelle Knudsen, quote from Evil Librarian
“To realize in an instant that you aren't going to have the life you'd hoped for, but not waste a moment complaining, instead acting instantly to save what good you can? That's more guts than I'd have had.”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Blood Mirror
“I was just average, I’m afraid. Too dreamy. After school,”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from The Last Anniversary
“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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