Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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“But we’re not trying to empty the Thames,” she told him. “Look at what we’re doing with the water we remove. It doesn’t go to waste. We’re using it to water our gardens, sprout by sprout. We’re growing bluebells and clovers where once there was a desert. All you see is the river, but I care about the roses.
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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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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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...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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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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“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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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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Every girl has dreams. Every woman learns to pack them up.
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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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“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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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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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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“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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“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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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.