Courtney Milan Quotes
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He snorted. “Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?” “Of course I am.” She smiled at him. “I thought it would put you at ease.
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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I’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.
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The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.
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took Amanda’s hand. “Sisters,” she repeated. “I walked away from you years ago. I’ll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
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“You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
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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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Men touch their horses to calm them,” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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“I am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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He’d fallen a little bit in love with her the moment she’d said his name as if it had value.
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The vicar gave him permission and he kissed her - not hard, for lust, nor long, for love, but a light brush of his lips for the brief space of time that she would stay in his life.
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All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.
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I think we may have started this conversation off on the wrong foot," Robert said finally. In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
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Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.
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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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His uncle had provided Adrian with some incredibly valuable lessons in how English society functioned. One of those lessons was that being married to the wrong person was worse than being dead.
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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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“Let me take you home,” he said. “I can make my own way.” “I know. Let me take you anyway.”
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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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“Oh, dear.” Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. “Is my punctuation showing once more?
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It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.
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The road to hell was surely paved with cacao.
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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.