Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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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 would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin. "Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement."
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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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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 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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“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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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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“Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked. “No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.
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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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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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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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"Because even though you’ve been invisible to the entire world,” he said, “I have always seen you.
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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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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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'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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In droves, filling the doorway
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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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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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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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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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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.