Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.
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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
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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.
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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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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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 life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
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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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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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“You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
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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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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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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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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 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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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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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.
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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.
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He'd been lying to himself all these months. He WAS in love with her. And he had no idea what to do about it.
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“Don’t answer, Marshall. Work it through your principles.” Bradenton smiled. “But in the end, we all know how this will work out. It’s one annoying girl against your entire future. Against the future of voting rights.
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“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.