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Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.
Courtney Milan
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Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.
Courtney Milan
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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
Courtney Milan
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The road to hell was surely paved with cacao.
Courtney Milan
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You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
Courtney Milan
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The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
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Then the car door opens and the driver gets out. He’s tall and thin with sandy-blond hair.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
Courtney Milan
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
Courtney Milan
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But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.
Courtney Milan
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In droves, filling the doorway
Courtney Milan
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A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.
Courtney Milan
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"Does anyone ever get the best of you?” “Yes,” she returned, “but only when I choose to give it to them."
Courtney Milan
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
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Kate had dressed for battle, donning her finest pink muslin morning dress. With lace at her wrists and mother-of-pearl buttons at her throat, instead of that itchy servant's cloak, she felt capable of matching wits with anyone.
Courtney Milan
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I believe that women are human beings. That belief is not diametrically opposed to thinking that men are human beings, and that if one human being has the opportunity to be kind to another, she should do so.
Courtney Milan
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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.
Courtney Milan
