Courtney Milan Quotes
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“I hate your future wife," she said simply. At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.
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I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my son to be more.
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There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.
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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.
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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.
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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.
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He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.
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“Is it something I said?” Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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He snorted. “Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?” “Of course I am.” She smiled at him. “I thought it would put you at ease.
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Robert turned to the man standing beside him. “Oliver,” he said, “how did you ever come to the conclusion that I was a worthwhile human being?” Oliver took off his glasses and cleaned them with a handkerchief. “What makes you think I did?
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There was no point in feeling hurt simply because a man she refused to want didn't want her back.
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What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.”