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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“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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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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You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.
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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 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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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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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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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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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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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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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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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 think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my son to be more.
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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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We're friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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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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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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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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Do you think that an eyeful of breast and buttocks will have me so besotted that I will forget all my principles? I'm a virgin, Mrs Farleigh. Not an innocent. I've never been an innocent.
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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.