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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"I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.
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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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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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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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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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There was no point in feeling hurt simply because a man she refused to want didn't want her back.
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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 like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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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...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.
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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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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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What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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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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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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But I’ve learned that I’m stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.
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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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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.