Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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“Don’t answer, Marshall. Work it through your principles.” Bradenton smiled. “But in the end, we all know how this will work out. It’s one annoying girl against your entire future. Against the future of voting rights.
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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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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The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.
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We're friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop 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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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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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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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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I thought I had to prove myself with money and accomplishments. But those will always ring hollow. They will never be enough. I want to be somebody. Let me be your husband. Let me be the father of your child - of all your children.
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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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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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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know 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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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.
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It had taken Oliver years to learn his lesson: keep quiet and let men like Bradenton test the fences. It wouldn’t do them any good, and if you were careful, one day you’d be in a position to buy their whole damned farm.
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She felt as if she’d opened a door on what she believed was a towering monster, only to find it five inches tall.
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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.