Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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Some people, when they’re hurt… they remember the challenge. They grab hold of the fire once, and when they’re burned, they make plans, trying to figure out how to hold live coals. That’s your mother. But some of us remember the pain.
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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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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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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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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’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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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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Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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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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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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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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“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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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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The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.
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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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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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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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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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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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“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.