Courtney Milan Quotes
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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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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Money may not buy love, but it buys something like it. Not having any money makes love complicated.
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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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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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A sign on the door proclaimed: "The countess is NOT to be bothered except in the cases of death, disembowelment, the Apocalypse, or the arrival of her mother.
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The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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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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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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People always claimed to want such things when they faced the harsh light of judgment. With the prospect of punishment looming over their heads, they would promise anything.
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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 made her shoulder blades into steel, willing them to stay rigid against his onslaught. She was a thing of gears and metal, strong like clockwork, and she wouldn’t melt down into tears.
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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.
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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 opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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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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It was hardly the first time she had confused him. He knew just enough to understand that he didn’t understand her.
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He’d never treated her like a lady. He’d treated her like an equal instead, and that had seemed far more precious.
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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.