Courtney Milan Quotes
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People always claimed to want such things when they faced the harsh light of judgment. With the prospect of punishment looming over their heads, they would promise anything.
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“Do Chinese dragons even eat people?” “She lives in the Bay Area,” I say severely. “She eats a Westernized diet.
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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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He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.
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She made her shoulder blades into steel, willing them to stay rigid against his onslaught. She was a thing of gears and metal, strong like clockwork, and she wouldn’t melt down into tears.
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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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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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'We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.
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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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"Because even though you’ve been invisible to the entire world,” he said, “I have always seen you.
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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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“Let me take you home,” he said. “I can make my own way.” “I know. Let me take you anyway.”
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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.
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
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He’d fallen a little bit in love with her the moment she’d said his name as if it had value.
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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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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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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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Money may not buy love, but it buys something like it. Not having any money makes love complicated.
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He snorted. “Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?” “Of course I am.” She smiled at him. “I thought it would put you at ease.
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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
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“I lie, I forge I blackmail.” Edward shrugged. “But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low.” Good to know you have some principles.
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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.