95 Quotes by Michelle Moran

We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

Even prisoners can escape if they have books.

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.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

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.