Courtney Milan Quotes
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you.
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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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In droves, filling the doorway
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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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It really is that easy. I can say no. I can tell him I have a problem, and it becomes just a…thing. An obstacle. Something I can attack. It was only silence that made it insurmountable.
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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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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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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 wanted to laugh. He ought to have corrected the man. “Yes,” he finally said. “I do things with stuff. How ever did you know?” “Maybe this is for the best,” Fairfield said. “You might know of a whole range of cures that I have not been able to access.
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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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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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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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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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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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...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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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
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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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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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There was no point in feeling hurt simply because a man she refused to want didn't want her back.
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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."