Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
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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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She’d make a rude noise
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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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"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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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 am small,” she said, “but mighty.
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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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The road to hell was surely paved with cacao.
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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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In droves, filling the doorway
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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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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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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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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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“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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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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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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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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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.