Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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“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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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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In droves, filling the doorway
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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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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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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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“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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...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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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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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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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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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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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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“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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I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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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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“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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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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“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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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.