Courtney Milan Quotes
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Anything is bearable if you can fight it, but if you must sit back and take it… That breaks you in a way I can’t explain.”
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"Work your way on to number twelve,” she snapped. “Number eleven wants nothing more to do with you.
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In this world, you’re either playing the game or you’re a pawn on the board.
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Some servent with no sense of the symbolic had kept the hinges well-oiled during the years of his absence, as if their marital life had merely been cast into temporary abeyance.
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She was nothing. He had everything. And for what little it was worth, he was embarrassed by his own strength.
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M is for Me. I’m yours, even when you make mistakes.
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"Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.” He was talking about friendship, but the way he looked at her… She would crackle like fire if he touched her.
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“Ah, the rule that says that women aren’t allowed to be intelligent.” He brushed a kiss against her forehead. “Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it’s selfish to do so.
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Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.
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God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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I’m sure your prick is as massive as your head is thick.
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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
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An unreadable response was heaps better than an unprintable one.
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THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and - most important of all - scaling walls. It was the last she’d put to use at the moment.
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He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him. He didn’t want to turn at the sound of her voice. If he simply stared into the hydrangea for long enough…then he would be a coward. He turned to face the woman who could bring him to his knees.
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But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.
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I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.
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You really shouldn’t blame men for everything.” “No, just the ninety-eight percent of society’s ills they’re responsible for.
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She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
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“Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion, if you let me. If I have to take on the role of knight, I want to be yours. Let me be your protector.
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It would be like loving the ocean, but wishing it would change into a glass of water.
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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"I’ve escaped from the dreadful clutches of a nap,” she announced to the road.