Rebel Queen Quotes

“If you have ever met someone who rarely reads, then you will understand the blank look Moti gave me. For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don’t exist here.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.”
― michelle moran, Rebel Queen

“And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then—if you allow it—everything else.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Even prisoners can escape if they have books.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person’s house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Yoga is not something a person practices with music or mirrors or any other distraction. It's purpose is less about samyoga than it is about viyoga, which is to say, it is more about disconnecting than it is about connecting which many Westerners find strange, until they hear it explained. The reason a person practices every day is to disconnect from their deep connection to suffering.

The author of the ancient Yogatattva Upanishad believed that without the practice of yoga, it was entirely impossible to set the atman free. The atman, of course, is the soul. And just as the rani said, we are so burdened down by our daily worries that many of us have become no different than beasts. We walk around eating and drinking and caring very little about our purpose in this life. Some of us are not even very clever beasts. We are merely trudging through our work, yoked to some terrible master or job. The goal of yoga is to changed all of this; to remind the human who has become like an ox that their yoke and harness can be taken off, even if it's only for a few minutes a day, and that through silencing the mind, we can silence greed, and hunger, and desire as well.”
― 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

“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

“Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.
Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“memoirs are not open doors into another person’s house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don’t exist here.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“Yoga is not something a person practices with music or mirrors or any other distraction. Its purpose is less about samyoga than it is about viyoga, which is to say, it is more about disconnecting than it is about connecting, which many Westerners find strange, until they hear it explained. The reason a person practices every day is to disconnect from their deep connection to suffering. The author of the ancient Yogatattva”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“The reason a person practices every day is to disconnect from their deep connection to suffering. The author of the ancient Yogatattva”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“My father has already given me advice: the only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.”
― Michelle Moran, The Last Queen of India

“I would survive this. I’d survived worse things. After all, I was bamboo, and bamboo bends. It doesn’t break.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“I was becoming a tree rooted in the soil of tragedy, he said, and with every fresh reading I was watering the roots, sinking deeper, allowing my pain to grow stronger. "Plant your roots in fresh soil," he told me. And so my words were shut away.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“One second, one, is all that separates life from death.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“My people,” she began formally. “Main Jhansi nahin doongi!”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“dividing society into differing castes was the same as dividing a tree into different parts and pretending that the leaf is better than the trunk.”
― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen