Courtney Milan Quotes
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took Amanda’s hand. “Sisters,” she repeated. “I walked away from you years ago. I’ll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
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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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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
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I’ll tell you my truth, if you’ll tell me yours.
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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
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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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What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them
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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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“I am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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“Don’t answer, Marshall. Work it through your principles.” Bradenton smiled. “But in the end, we all know how this will work out. It’s one annoying girl against your entire future. Against the future of voting rights.
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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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Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.
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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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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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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 road to hell was surely paved with cacao.
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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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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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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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You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.