{"author":"Michelle Moran","author_id":"Michelle+Moran","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"...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.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss"],"id":2291,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["demons","regrets","secrets"],"id":46165,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":57613,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["love-story"],"id":101013,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Arjun: ...The men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["feminism","girl-power"],"id":110157,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":162516,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["choices","decisions","future"],"id":194353,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Even prisoners can escape if they have books.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["books","escape"],"id":197151,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["change","coping","pain"],"id":277646,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"},{"text":"Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.","author":"Michelle Moran","tags":["humility"],"id":286685,"author_id":"Michelle+Moran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}