Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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I'm afraid I might make a fool of myself over him. I'm not even sure he would notice if I did.
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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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In droves, filling the doorway
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She’d make a rude noise
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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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“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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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.
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“I am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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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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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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A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
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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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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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“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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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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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."
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The road to hell was surely paved with cacao.
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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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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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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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It was not lust itself he felt, but the premonition of desire, as if the wind that whipped around his cravat were whispering in his ears. /Her. Choose her.
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We’re kissing again, bathed in the light of the streetlamp overhead and the constellations we have yet to name below us. We’re writing our own script. And the light we’re going to build together will drown out every million-year-old star that insists we cannot be.
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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.