226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

A lady always avoids the truth, when it happens to be gauche.

She will have to want to do it, want it enough that she won’t quit midway. She’ll have to want it enough that she’ll work through all the frustration so she can persevere to the end. When you need someone to have a will of her own, you can’t just bend her to yours.

Jonas had never been able to manage that sort of small conversation. The labyrinthine rules attached to kind words usually left him bemused. And Miss Charingford was so good at it. He could have watched her make people smile for hours.

Ah, the rule that says that women aren’t allowed to be intelligent.” He brushed a kiss against her forehead. “Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it’s selfish to do so.

You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I.

Does anyone ever get the best of you?” “Yes,” she returned, “but only when I choose to give it to them.

Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?

If I’ve learned anything, it’s that we know next to nothing. Disease is a mystery. Health is inscrutable. The body itself is scarcely understood; we can only examine the secrets of the dead. And in all that dark ignorance, we’re sometimes granted a rare moment of illumination. The truth is a gift.

Gray! No, anything but gray. Gray is nothing but a white that can’t make up its mind.