Courtney Milan Quotes
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Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan’t be allowed to vote, and I won’t be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.
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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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Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.
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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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Robert turned to the man standing beside him. “Oliver,” he said, “how did you ever come to the conclusion that I was a worthwhile human being?” Oliver took off his glasses and cleaned them with a handkerchief. “What makes you think I did?
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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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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.
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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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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 think we may have started this conversation off on the wrong foot," Robert said finally. In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
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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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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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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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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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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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Do you think that an eyeful of breast and buttocks will have me so besotted that I will forget all my principles? I'm a virgin, Mrs Farleigh. Not an innocent. I've never been an innocent.
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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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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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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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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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A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.