Courtney Milan Quotes
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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"Because even though you’ve been invisible to the entire world,” he said, “I have always seen you.
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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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It really is that easy. I can say no. I can tell him I have a problem, and it becomes just a…thing. An obstacle. Something I can attack. It was only silence that made it insurmountable.
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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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“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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It was hardly the first time she had confused him. He knew just enough to understand that he didn’t understand her.
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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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You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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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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Do you remember the time you blackmailed me? Yes, dear. You blackmailed me right back. It was the sweetest thing. I knew then that we were meant for each other.
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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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The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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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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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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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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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 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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A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.