Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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“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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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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“Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked. “No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.
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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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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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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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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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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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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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“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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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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What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent child’s life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put to - sell their bodies, or see their children starve.
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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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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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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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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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And she’d discovered she wasn’t empty inside. She was magnificent. Even if nobody yet recognized it.
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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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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.