Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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He snorted. “Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?” “Of course I am.” She smiled at him. “I thought it would put you at ease.
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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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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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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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Would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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.
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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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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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...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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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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“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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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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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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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.
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“I believe,” he said, “that there is a special place in hell for those who steal truth. And that man - whoever he is - I hope he is burning there.
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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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“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.
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One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.
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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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There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.