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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“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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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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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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He wanted her to lift her head at this moment. He wanted her to look him in the eyes and realize that he loved her. He wanted her to love him back.
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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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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Men touch their horses to calm them,” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.
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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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In droves, filling the doorway
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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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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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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I'm afraid I might make a fool of myself over him. I'm not even sure he would notice if I did.
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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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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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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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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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If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?
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A sign on the door proclaimed: "The countess is NOT to be bothered except in the cases of death, disembowelment, the Apocalypse, or the arrival of her mother.
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“You’ll know,” Judith said. “If you ever see him again, you’ll know it’s him because the world will right itself