Courtney Milan Quotes

Libraries are the future of reading.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

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.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

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.

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

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.

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.

The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.

Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.

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.

I’d tell you to fetch a match, but you have always had your own spark.

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

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.

Men touch their horses to calm them, ” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.

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.

She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

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.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.