Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.
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It reminded him of the cacophony of an orchestra as it tuned its instruments: dissonance, suddenly resolving into harmony. It was the rumble, not of thunder, but its low, rolling precursor, trembling on the horizon.
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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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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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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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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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I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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You are constantly surprising me. I have to remind myself that whatever it is you are planning, it is going to be thought through more thoroughly than anything I have ever contemplated.
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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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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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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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"Because even though you’ve been invisible to the entire world,” he said, “I have always seen you.
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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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His uncle had provided Adrian with some incredibly valuable lessons in how English society functioned. One of those lessons was that being married to the wrong person was worse than being dead.