226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

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.

Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.

You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.

British people love their non-British sauces, as long as they don’t know they’re not British.

Don’t feel embarrassed,” she said. “It’s acceptable to lose the flow of conversation. Not everyone is clever enough to think of something to say immediately.” Bradenton’s lips thinned. “And you’re a marquess,” she added. “Maybe there are deficiencies in your understanding, but nobody will ever notice them so long as you make absolutely certain to introduce yourself as a marquess first.

My nerves are neither over- nor underwrought. They are wrought to the precise degree demanded by this situation.

That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.

The question has never been who my list is about,” Jeremy told her. “It’s been about whether she’ll have me.

And I know, despite all the constellations placed in the sky as warning, why all those Greek maidens gave it up in the end. It’s because all the pain is worth it for this one moment.