Courtney Milan Quotes
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Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.
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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.
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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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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're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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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 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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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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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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It’s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
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She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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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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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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“You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
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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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And nothing says lace like…more lace
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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.