Courtney Milan Quotes
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But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.
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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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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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"Does anyone ever get the best of you?” “Yes,” she returned, “but only when I choose to give it to them."
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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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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
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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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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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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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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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I do believe you would have cut the rope.
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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
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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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What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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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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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.