226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

Happiness is not just an act of optimism – it is an act of defiance.

And your mom?” Blake clears his throat. “She’s not with us.” I remember the conversation Blake and I had on the way down and tense. I can only imagine what my mother will say. But my mother just smiles brilliantly. “That’s good! Too many boys your age get spoiled by their mothers. They don’t know how to cook, how to do laundry. Tina is going to be a busy doctor. She’ll need someone to do all that for her. Better if you’re not used to having someone else take care of you.

Have you ever seen a cat attempt to pounce on a target, and miss? And what does the cat do? It acts as if it intended to miss. ‘Yes,’ it says. ‘I let that one go as a warning to all the others. Now I shall lick my paws for the next five minutes, precisely as I had planned.

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.

You’re perfectly right. There’s no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.

If that door opens now, of course,” he murmured in her ear, “I can step away and only the flush in your cheeks will raise suspicion.” His hands continued to chart a dangerous course over her body. He stroked her, caressed her, until she strained against him. He kissed the back of her neck. “So I think we should remove any doubt as to what is happening.

I’ll luck you anytime you wish.

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.

I think we may have started this conversation off on the wrong foot,” Robert said finally. In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.