“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
Michelle Moran
Born place: San Fernando Valley, The United States
See more on GoodReads
“It was a Friday night, two in the morning, and my two best friends were shrieking”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest High
“Sometimes I feel as if I'm cursed. A slow, hungry curse that has worked its way across my entire life, stripping me of everything I love.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Falling Kingdoms
“Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all?
In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed.”
― Alison Bechdel, quote from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from My Name Is Memory
Glimmerglass
The Wedding
Proof of Heaven: A N...
Memoirs of an Imagin...
Nine MinutesBookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
