Top 100 Courtney Milan Quotes
#1. This time, his gaze fixed on her and stayed. The wind blew, whipping her skirts about her ankles, as if he'd called up a gale with the intensity of his stare.
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#2. He snorted. "Are you lying to me, Miss Marshall?"
"Of course I am." She smiled at him. "I thought it would put you at ease.
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#3. You can call me your friend if you like, but I think of you when I stroke myself. When last I checked, that points to feelings that are decidedly more than friendly.
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#4. Is it a thorny question of ethics? Or is it the sort of ethical question where the right choice is easy, but the unethical answer is too tempting?
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#5. 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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#6. Family isn't a matter of history. Or biology," he said softly. "It's a matter of choice.
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#7. He'd wanted to make her into nothing because that's what he'd done to himself.
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#8. Oh, dear." Free looked down, fluttering her eyelashes demurely. "Is my punctuation showing once more?
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#9. Jane had it right: He'd traded his bravery for his ambition. And if he didn't make this right - if he didn't learn to suppress that memory of pain and reach in and grab hold of the coals in front of him, he'd be locked up for life in the chains of his own silence.
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#10. Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.
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#11. When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.
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#13. Nothing was what she was; nothing was what she gave to those foolish enough to care for her. Nothing was what she deserved, and so nothing had been what she got. It didn't matter how hard she tried or what she did.
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#14. 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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#15. You said that I didn't notice people like you." His voice lowers. His eyes are relentlessly blue, and they cut into me. "That's completely false. You've never been invisible to me. I saw you the first day we crossed paths, and I've been seeing you ever since.
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#16. I have no tolerance for maudlin affection, and less for women who want to fix me."
"Fix you?" Miranda said. "Why would anyone want to fix you? You're not broken.
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#17. Defiance. He swallowed. It wasn't enough for him - not anymore. He wanted to be more than her defiance. He wanted to be her strength, her amusement. He wanted to be her lover. He wanted to be her every wicked desire and her safe haven, all at once.
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#18. Ash." Margaret knew her voice was trembling. "Why are you doing this?"
"Because I adore you. Because you looked so stricken when I saw you and I couldn't bear not to comfort you." His voice was warm breath against her skin. "Did you know, when you left that room, you took all the light with you?
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#19. Hugo reached down and plucked a spare twig from the ground and set it on the bench between them. "This," he said, "is a wall, and I will not cross it.
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#20. One of these days, you're going to realize that your sister doesn't need a man who follows the rules. There are too many rules and only one of her. Keep your brotherhood of left-handed do-gooders, Marshall. Your sister needs a man who is actually sinister.
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#21. There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.
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#22. Farleigh. I fear that I'd break something irreplaceable." She swallowed. "Sir Mark." He reached out one hand again, almost to her face,
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#23. You always put things at risk. If you fell out of a tree as a child, I'd clean you up and bandage your knees, and next I looked you'd be out climbing again. You never learned your lesson.
Oh, she'd learned her lesson. Climb harder.
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#24. I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.
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#25. Don't say my name like that. Please, Your Grace. If you have any care for me at all - pretend to flirt. But don't actually do it.
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#26. A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
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#28. She didn't need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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#29. She made her shoulder blades into steel, willing them to stay rigid against his onslaught. She was a thing of gears and metal, strong like clockwork, and she wouldn't melt down into tears.
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#30. The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.
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#31. He came in. "Yes, Miss Marshall?"
He looked ... so innocent. Stephen was good at looking innocent; a necessary skill for a man who had a dreadfully mischievous sense of humor.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Rest easy, Miss Charingford," he said. "I wasn't attempting to seduce you. I had come to no conclusions about your virtue. I was only talking to you because you were the eleventh prettiest young lady in Leicester.
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#35. Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.
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#36. What part of your duty am I?"
He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm.
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#38. 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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#39. Sometimes I wish that this quest had not come to me. Justice is an impossible beast to track. The trail is lonely, and she offers no reward when she's caught but the promise of another hunt.
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#40. Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion,if you let me. If I have to take on the role of knight, I want to be yours. Let me be your protector.
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#41. The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.
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#42. Jess again. Mark had called her Jessica. As if she were a full person, not a truncated portion of one.
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#43. THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and - most important of all - scaling walls. It was the last she'd put to use at the moment.
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#44. MARGARET HAD SEEN ASH cheerfully powerful, as talkative as a jaybird. She'd seen him silently powerful while he was listening to those around her. She didn't like seeing him vulnerable. It made her feel odd inside - hotly angry on his behalf, and enraged that someone had made him feel that way.
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#45. I'm not stubborn," Ash said. "I'm right. There's a difference.
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#46. Fairfield," she said in cutting tones, 'if you had been a hunter on the plains of old, the lions would have killed you while you were wandering around the savannah saying, 'Where is everyone, and what have they done with my spears?
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#47. He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.
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#48. I think she'll fit quite well. As wives go, Miss Pursling will be just like these books. When I wish to take her down and read her, she'll be there. When I don't, she'll wait patiently, precisely where she was left. She'll make me a comfortable wife, Ames. Besides, my mother likes her.
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#49. Under any other circumstances, he'd have found himself stealing glances all evening. But looking at her was like picking up a luxurious peach and discovering it half taken over by mold.
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#50. You see, I'm not really left-handed."
"No!" Robert and Oliver spike together in joint outrage.
Sebastian's eyes widened. "An infidel! Stone him!" He looked wildly around, found a scrap of paper on the floor, and hurled it ineffectually at him. "Die, fiend, die!
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#51. I'm not a fair woman," she choked out. "I want impossible, contradictory things. I'm all hard edges, Sebastian. Hard edges and crumpled pieces and broken pieces of glass. There is no way for you to win this.
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#52. Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
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#53. M is for Me. I'm yours, even when you make mistakes.
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#54. You see so many surprising things and you think they're obvious.
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#55. In this world, you're either playing the game or you're a pawn on the board.
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#56. I hate having second thoughts," he muttered. "Necessary, for second chances," Dalrymple put in.
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#57. Does anyone ever get the best of you?" "Yes," she returned, "but only when I choose to give it to them.
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#58. When someone falls," Mark said, "you don't throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It's the Christian thing to do.
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#59. Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.
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#60. You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.
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#62. Sebastian simply shrugged once more, placed his hand over his mouth in an exaggerated motion, and then bowed, gesturing to Robert. Robert translated this as 'I'm deeply sorry, but having promised my cousin that I wouldn't say a word, I must now embarrass him as best as I can with gestures.
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#63. When he's like this, Miss Lowell," Mark offered from his seat on the sofa, "I usually take it upon myself to stamp out in a rage."
"Must I stamp? Or can I sweet out gracefully?" "By all means, sweep.
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#64. The great benefit I see to marrying you is that I would be married to you. I
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#65. Miss Fairfield," he said quietly, "I am not your enemy. Stop treating me as one." Her heart slammed in her breast. "I have no enemies." "That, Miss Fairfield, is bollocks, and you know it. You have only enemies.
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#66. He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers ceased to be easy.
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#68. After everything we've done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify.
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#69. When I said that this lady was known to me, I meant that I esteem her more than anyone else on this earth. If I can do my duty and walk away from my best beloved, you can all do yours and listen to what she has to say.
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#70. Even the illusion of love was preferable to the utter lack of it.
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#71. I'll be your friend in daylight. I'll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I'll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.
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#72. He wanted her to lift her head at this moment. He wanted her to look him in the eyes and realize that he loved her. He wanted her to love him back.
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#73. She smiled. He'd joked once that he feared her gown might be contagious, but it was her smile that was catching. It caught him now. He felt hooked by it, no desire to do anything except smile back at her.
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#74. It's called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
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#76. But bright. So bright. It's a shame you're so impossible, Miss Fairfield, because otherwise, I think I would try for you.
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#77. 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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#78. If people want you to stop talking, or to stop dressing the way you do, or to change who you are, it's because you hurt their eyes. We've all been trained not to stare into the sun.' - Oliver
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#79. This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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#80. Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it's selfish to do so.
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#82. He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.
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#83. Minnie stood. I didn't refuse Gardley because I wanted too much. It wasn't that I thought I could do better. It was simply that I couldn't do worse.
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#84. Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.
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#85. What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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#86. That's the way things were; people liked Lily, and while they were busy liking her, Violet got things done.
It never bothered Violet. She liked having things to do, and if her sister hadn't been there, they wouldn't have liked Violet any better. They'd only have ignored her more.
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#87. Damn you, knowledge! Ruining everything good, once again. Learning things is most inconvenient.
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#88. She made everything happen, and still she remained invisible to the people she loved the most.
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#89. Perhaps God gave one sisters to teach one to love the inexplicable.
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#90. He couldn't bring himself to look directly at her. Her gown was the color of daylight just before sunset; if he looked at her too long, he feared he might be left blind once she was gone.
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#91. I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.
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#92. There was no point in feeling hurt simply because a man she refused to want didn't want her back.
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#93. Are you ... uh ... Mr ... .uh ... " "Yes," he replied, because he answered to Mr. Uh almost as often as he did to his own name. "This
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#94. If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?
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#95. If you're going to throw the girl to the wolves, it's only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
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#96. If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.
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#97. Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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#98. 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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#99. Now, tell me, Mr. Clark. Did you come here to allow me the chance to once again demonstrate my intellectual superiority, or did you have some actual business?" "You don't need to demonstrate your superiority to me. I take it as a given on all fronts.
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#100. I've seen Emily's scars, and that's more than you can say.
Fairfield shrunk back from the anger in Anjan's voice. "I meant well," he whispered.
Anjan leaned forward across the desk until he was an inch from the other man. "Mean better.
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