Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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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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She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
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But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.
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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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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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“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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“Oh, dear.” Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. “Is my punctuation showing once more?
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But the Duke of Clermont was smiling and cheerful, and he’d thrown it out there as if it were merely one more fact to be recounted. The weather is lovely. The streets are paved with cobblestone. Your tits are magnificent.
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She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.
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"I’ve escaped from the dreadful clutches of a nap,” she announced to the road.
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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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It had been so long since anyone had made her feel fluttery. It felt like winter sunshine – something to be savored because it surely wouldn’t last.
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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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It reminded him of the cacophony of an orchestra as it tuned its instruments: dissonance, suddenly resolving into harmony. It was the rumble, not of thunder, but its low, rolling precursor, trembling on the horizon.
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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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All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.
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“I am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.
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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?