Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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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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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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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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"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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She gave him the most astonishing vertigo. He should have hated it. But he didn’t - not one bit.
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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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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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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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This feeling, this tentative flutter in her belly - this was hers. This was sunlight on her face. It was the warmth she'd dreamed of. It was a curl of honest attraction, the first she'd experienced in years.
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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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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent child’s life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put to - sell their bodies, or see their children starve.
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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
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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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took Amanda’s hand. “Sisters,” she repeated. “I walked away from you years ago. I’ll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
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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.