Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.
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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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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.
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Robert believed in restraint. He made it a point not to emulate his father. He refused to be the kind of man who took a woman just because he fancied her. But, damn it, sometimes he wished he were. He wished he were with every part of his being.
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The beautiful thing about marriage is the right it gives me to monogamy. One man intent on dictating my whereabouts is enough, wouldn’t you think?
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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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Then the car door opens and the driver gets out. He’s tall and thin with sandy-blond hair.
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You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.
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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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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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“But we’re not trying to empty the Thames,” she told him. “Look at what we’re doing with the water we remove. It doesn’t go to waste. We’re using it to water our gardens, sprout by sprout. We’re growing bluebells and clovers where once there was a desert. All you see is the river, but I care about the roses.
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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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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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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 would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin. "Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement."