Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
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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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“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 she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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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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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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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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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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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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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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I do believe you would have cut the rope.
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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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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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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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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
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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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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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“I hate your future wife," she said simply. At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.