Courtney Milan Quotes
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You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.
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“Oh, dear.” Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. “Is my punctuation showing once more?
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But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.
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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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“Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?
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One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.
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"I’ve escaped from the dreadful clutches of a nap,” she announced to the road.
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Sometimes I wish that this quest had not come to me. Justice is an impossible beast to track. The trail is lonely, and she offers no reward when she's caught but the promise of another hunt.
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“I am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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This wasn’t a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word “gaudy” sound sweet and demure by contrast.
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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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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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I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
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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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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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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
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All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.
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"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
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Sebastian will never fight wars, but it's because of people like him that the rest of us don't have to fight as many of them. He makes everyone around him more than what they are.
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She received his note not two minutes later. She opened it, her heart pounding. But there were only two words on the paper. Marry me.
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.
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If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
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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.