226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

I like all your worst qualities.

Anjan was Batty because Bhattacharya had too many syllables. He’d told one man his first name; the fellow had blinked, and then had immediately dubbed him John. That’s who they thought he was: John Batty. These well-meaning English boys had taken his name as easily, and with as much jovial friendship, as their fathers had taken his country.

I walked this path,” she said. “But you told me it was here.

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.

His cooking had always been excellent, but the addition of spite to every recipe had brought an extra level of brilliance.

Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.

She walked away from him with swift, sure strides, as if she knew her destination. As if it had nothing to do with him.

Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.

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.