Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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He wanted her to lift her head at this moment. He wanted her to look him in the eyes and realize that he loved her. He wanted her to love him back.
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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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My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
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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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“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
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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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An unreadable response was heaps better than an unprintable one.
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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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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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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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Miss Marshall spent her life daring those more powerful than her to swat her down. The hell of it was, her determination was some kind of contagion. He could feel it infecting him, making him believe. Making him tell himself lies like 'I could do some good' and 'I want her forever'.
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She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.
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God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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M is for Me. I’m yours, even when you make mistakes.
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It turns out, Newton is correct: Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and twelve-year-old-boys are even more resistant to motion than regular matter.
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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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But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.
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I’m sure your prick is as massive as your head is thick.
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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.
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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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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.