Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
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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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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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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.
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It really is that easy. I can say no. I can tell him I have a problem, and it becomes just a…thing. An obstacle. Something I can attack. It was only silence that made it insurmountable.
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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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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.
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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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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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In droves, filling the doorway
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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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“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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If your point of reference is a glimpse you’ve caught of a business transaction conducted in an alley, I’d venture that you have no idea what I can do with a wall.
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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.