Courtney Milan Quotes
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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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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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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The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.
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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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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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Money may not buy love, but it buys something like it. Not having any money makes love complicated.
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.
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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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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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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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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.