Courtney Milan Quotes
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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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“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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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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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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No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.
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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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“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 friends...And what that means is this: I won't let anyone hurt you. Not if I can stop it.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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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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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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The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
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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're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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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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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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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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“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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...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 not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment...at the moment, I may be coming a bit unraveled.
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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’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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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.