Courtney Milan Quotes
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I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.
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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.
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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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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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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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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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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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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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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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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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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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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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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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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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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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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
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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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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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“I hate your future wife," she said simply. At the moment, I'm not much in charity with her myself.
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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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“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.