“You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“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.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“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.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“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.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“My love is unique and none can rival her . . . Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“And although 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.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“If the gods cannot recognize your names,” she warned, “they will never hear your prayers.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“RAMESSES II is one of the most well-known and widely written-about kings of ancient Egypt. A copy of his Treaty of Kadesh, written in cuneiform and discovered in the village of Hattusas, hangs in the United Nations building in New York as the world’s earliest example of an international peace treaty. It is also believed that Ramesses is the Pharaoh responsible”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“It's true," He whispered.
Suddenly, I was aware of how close we were standing, so close I could touch the square of his jaw or the chiseled planes of his face.
"What's true?"
"You are as beautiful as I remembered. Nefer," he said, and his breath came quickly. "Perhaps you want to simply remain my friend, but when I was gone, all I could think about was you. When I was supposed to be thinking about the rebellion, or how my men would find fresh water in the desert, all I could think of was how you wanted to be hidden away in the Temple of Hathor. Nefer," he said passionately, "you can't be a priestess."
I wanted to close my eyes and step into the shelter of his embrace, but beyond the column the entire court was gathering.
"But if I'm not to be a priestess," I asked him, "where will my place be in Thebes?" I held my breath, waiting for the right answer to come, willing it into his heart. Then he took me in his arms and brushed his lips against mine.
"With me," he said firmly. "As my queen.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
“She was speaking about an aging of the soul, when a person's ka is a thousand years older than her body.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from The Heretic Queen
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“The fantasies of ‘academic freedom’ . . . cannot protect a professor who counsels resistance to the law and speaks, writes, disseminates treason. That a teacher of youth should teach sedition and treason, that he should infect, or seek to infect, youthful minds with ideas fatal to their duty to the country, is intolerable.”
― Oliver Stone, quote from The Untold History of The United States
“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people.
But by one's inner self.
Everyone forges his inner self year after year.
One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being.
And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The First Circle
“Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.”
― quote from Code
“The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.”
― Pat Barker, quote from The Eye in the Door
“Foot traffic was picking up. The girl who’d hurled the crushed can was now making out with her target. Ah, the French. A traffic officer started gesturing for a white van to stop blocking traffic. I turned and waited for Terese to answer. She put down her coffee. “I can’t imagine.” But there was a catch in her throat. A tell, if you were playing cards with her. She wasn’t lying. I was pretty sure of that. But she wasn’t telling me everything either.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Long Lost
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