Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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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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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
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He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.
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She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.
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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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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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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 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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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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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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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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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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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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'We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.
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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.