Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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“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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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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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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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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I believe that women are human beings. That belief is not diametrically opposed to thinking that men are human beings, and that if one human being has the opportunity to be kind to another, she should do so.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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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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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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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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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.
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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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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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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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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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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 your future wife," she said simply. At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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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 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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...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.