Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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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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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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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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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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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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“A ninnyhammer,” Jane said, “sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those.
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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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"Because even though you’ve been invisible to the entire world,” he said, “I have always seen you.
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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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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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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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She’d make a rude noise
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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
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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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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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“If I’d married,” she said softly, “I would never know what I was capable of doing. It turns out that when you take away my kid gloves and my morning dresses, I can do quite a bit. This may sound ridiculous, but I’m proud of myself.