Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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“Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked. “No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.
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His Grace explained his choice of bride as follows: “Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.
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He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.
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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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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 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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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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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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"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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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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Best not to dream, dear. If you don’t, there’s nothing that can be taken from you.
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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 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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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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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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I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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“Do Chinese dragons even eat people?” “She lives in the Bay Area,” I say severely. “She eats a Westernized diet.