“When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.”
Michelle Moran“After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.”
Michelle Moran“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“Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.”
Michelle Moran, Nefertiti“Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner”
Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud“such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,”
Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud“customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,”
Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud“our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!”
Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud“Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.”
Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen“We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.”
Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen“When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.”
Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen