Courtney Milan Quotes
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I spent my day as I normally spend my days: threatening suppliers, bullying those who are not in line with my expectations, and generally creating havoc in the lives of others. The square across the street is empty of all but the pigeons. I find myself resenting them.
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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 only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.
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“I am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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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?
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Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?
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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 gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
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Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.
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The question wasn’t when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society’s rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?
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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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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
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When someone falls,” Mark said, “you don’t throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It’s the Christian thing to do.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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"I would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin. "Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement."
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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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 beautiful thing about marriage is the right it gives me to monogamy. One man intent on dictating my whereabouts is enough, wouldn’t you think?
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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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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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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.