Courtney Milan Quotes
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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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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Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.
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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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If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
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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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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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She received his note not two minutes later. She opened it, her heart pounding. But there were only two words on the paper. Marry me.
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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
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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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Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
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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’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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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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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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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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She’d make a rude noise
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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Some people, when they’re hurt… they remember the challenge. They grab hold of the fire once, and when they’re burned, they make plans, trying to figure out how to hold live coals. That’s your mother. But some of us remember the pain.
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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.
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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.