Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.
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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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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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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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He'd been lying to himself all these months. He WAS in love with her. And he had no idea what to do about it.
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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 believe,” he said, “that there is a special place in hell for those who steal truth. And that man - whoever he is - I hope he is burning there.
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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We’re kissing again, bathed in the light of the streetlamp overhead and the constellations we have yet to name below us. We’re writing our own script. And the light we’re going to build together will drown out every million-year-old star that insists we cannot be.
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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.
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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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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.”
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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.
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I don’t know if I can explain why I find this car so frightening. It’s powerful. It’s fast. I could go sixty and not even notice, and that’s the problem. I feel like I should notice having power like this. Like if I ever stop noticing, I’ll lose something important.
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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
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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 like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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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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.