Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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Robert turned to the man standing beside him. “Oliver,” he said, “how did you ever come to the conclusion that I was a worthwhile human being?” Oliver took off his glasses and cleaned them with a handkerchief. “What makes you think I did?
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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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"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
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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 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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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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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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'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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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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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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“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.
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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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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn’t the penis talk.
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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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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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She’d make a rude noise
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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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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It was hardly the first time she had confused him. He knew just enough to understand that he didn’t understand her.