Courtney Milan Quotes
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Do you think that an eyeful of breast and buttocks will have me so besotted that I will forget all my principles? I'm a virgin, Mrs Farleigh. Not an innocent. I've never been an innocent.
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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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'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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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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Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.
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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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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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“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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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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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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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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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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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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“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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What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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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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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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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.”