Courtney Milan Quotes
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He’d started caring more about becoming the kind of person who could make a change than he cared about the change itself.
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It’s a paradox. If I’m not strong enough to say no to my dad, I’m surely not strong enough to run the company. If he manages to break me down, I’ll know I can’t do it.
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He’d been her one taste of the forbidden fruit. A slow coil of anger began to burn deep inside him. Nobody ever asked the damned fruit if it wanted to be forbidden.
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“What part of your duty am I?" He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm.
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Nothing was what she was; nothing was what she gave to those foolish enough to care for her. Nothing was what she deserved, and so nothing had been what she got. It didn’t matter how hard she tried or what she did.
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If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
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Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!
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We can’t help being the most interesting people in the room.
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“Miss Fairfield,” he said quietly, “I am not your enemy. Stop treating me as one.” Her heart slammed in her breast. “I have no enemies.” “That, Miss Fairfield, is bollocks, and you know it. You have only enemies.
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The way he looked at her made her heart thump, her breath catch. For a second, those dark eyes seemed to have no end to them, as if she were looking into a hall of mirrors and seeing reflection upon reflection echoing into infinity.
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In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
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My nerves are neither over- nor underwrought. They are wrought to the precise degree demanded by this situation.
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If there is one person I could have on my side against impossible odds, it’s her.
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Gray! No, anything but gray. Gray is nothing but a white that can’t make up its mind.
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Third, as the ladies have clearly mastered the female art of chastity, our masculine inability to control our urges rather weakens our claims to be the stronger sex.
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I’m Edward Clark. Born Edward Delacey. Now, apparently, Viscount Claridge.” He shut his eyes. “You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.
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He'd wanted someone to see him. To see past his reputation...He wanted to be seen not as flawless, but as himself, faults and all.
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I don’t know what I’m seeing in his eyes now. Something raw and hungry. Or maybe I’m just seeing a reflection of my own want.
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He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.
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Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.
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“I worry about you,” he finally said to Free. “I’m afraid that you’re going to break your heart, going up against the world.” “No.” The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. “I’m going to break the world.
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If you’re going to throw the girl to the wolves, it’s only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
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It is the nature of English society to do precisely that: to keep the lower classes low and raise the upper classes even higher.