Courtney Milan Quotes
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He wanted to laugh. He ought to have corrected the man. “Yes,” he finally said. “I do things with stuff. How ever did you know?” “Maybe this is for the best,” Fairfield said. “You might know of a whole range of cures that I have not been able to access.
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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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We don’t need wealth. We don’t need riches. We Lanes just believe harder than everyone else, and good things come to us.
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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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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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“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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It really is that easy. I can say no. I can tell him I have a problem, and it becomes just a…thing. An obstacle. Something I can attack. It was only silence that made it insurmountable.
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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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“Let me take you home,” he said. “I can make my own way.” “I know. Let me take you anyway.”
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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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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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
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Then the car door opens and the driver gets out. He’s tall and thin with sandy-blond hair.
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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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She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
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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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But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
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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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You can call me your friend if you like, but I think of you when I stroke myself. When last I checked, that points to feelings that are decidedly more than friendly.
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Kate had dressed for battle, donning her finest pink muslin morning dress. With lace at her wrists and mother-of-pearl buttons at her throat, instead of that itchy servant's cloak, she felt capable of matching wits with anyone.