226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

The vicar gave him permission and he kissed her – not hard, for lust, nor long, for love, but a light brush of his lips for the brief space of time that she would stay in his life.

Truths designed to mislead are just as bad as lies.

For years, every conversation she had with a man had been colored by calculation. Would she put him off is she spoke her mind? What did he want her to say? When a man took a mistress, he purchased not just the rights to her body, but the content of her thoughts. Sir Mark wanted her as she was, not as he wished her to be. The thought made her head hurt.

I knew perfectly well what you meant,” Sebastian said. “But I’ve always found that the quickest way to make someone relent in his foolish edicts is to take every command literally and to perform it with flagrant obedience.

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

Money may not buy love, but it buys something like it. Not having any money makes love complicated.

A life without risk is one where I tell myself I’m not worthy of taking a chance.

She felt as if she’d opened a door on what she believed was a towering monster, only to find it five inches tall.

Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.