Courtney Milan Quotes
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She walked away from him with swift, sure strides, as if she knew her destination. As if it had nothing to do with him.
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My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
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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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In this world, you’re either playing the game or you’re a pawn on the board.
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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.
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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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I adhere to the law of chastity because I don’t believe in pushing women. That’s what it means to be a man. I don’t hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don’t indulge in either. We don’t need to.
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She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.
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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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He couldn't bring himself to look directly at her. Her gown was the color of daylight just before sunset; if he looked at her too long, he feared he might be left blind once she was gone.
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He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.
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If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.
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“You count,” he said softly. “That’s what it means, to not belong - it means that you count. It wouldn’t be bearable if you didn’t know it would end.
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I’m sure your prick is as massive as your head is thick.
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Of course; a nurse wouldn’t have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke’s heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
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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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She was nothing. He had everything. And for what little it was worth, he was embarrassed by his own strength.
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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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I knew the instant Margaret spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use.
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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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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
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He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.
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His Grace explained his choice of bride as follows: “Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?