Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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“Do Chinese dragons even eat people?” “She lives in the Bay Area,” I say severely. “She eats a Westernized diet.
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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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“Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion, if you let me. If I have to take on the role of knight, I want to be yours. Let me be your protector.
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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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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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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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All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.
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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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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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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.
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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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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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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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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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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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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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Miss Marshall spent her life daring those more powerful than her to swat her down. The hell of it was, her determination was some kind of contagion. He could feel it infecting him, making him believe. Making him tell himself lies like 'I could do some good' and 'I want her forever'.
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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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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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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.