Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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“But we’re not trying to empty the Thames,” she told him. “Look at what we’re doing with the water we remove. It doesn’t go to waste. We’re using it to water our gardens, sprout by sprout. We’re growing bluebells and clovers where once there was a desert. All you see is the river, but I care about the roses.
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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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Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan’t be allowed to vote, and I won’t be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.
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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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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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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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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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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know 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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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
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“You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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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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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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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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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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.