Michelle Moran Quotes

United States, Novelist
August 11, 1980

Michelle Moran is an American novelist. She was born in California's San Fernando Valley. She took an interest in writing from an early age, purchasing Writer's Market and submitting her stories and novellas to publishers from the time she was twelve. She majored in literature at Pomona College. Following a summer in Israel where she worked as a volunteer archaeologist, she earned an MA from the Claremont Graduate University.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Michelle Moran
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

Michelle Moran
- Moments
- Memories
- Steam

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

Michelle Moran
- Change
- Courses
- Oasis
Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

Michelle Moran
- Hope
- Wretched
But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Michelle Moran
- Character
- Sorry
- Tests
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
- People
- Fiction
- Ancient
I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

Michelle Moran
- Trying
- Finished
- Egypt
I don't think unhappiness is fated.

Michelle Moran
- Unhappiness
- Fated

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Michelle Moran
- Change
- Nothing
- Protected
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
- Giving
- Woman
- Learned
the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

Michelle Moran
- Sun
- Shining