226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

You've always been your own knight, riding to your rescue. I'm just the man who came along and saw how brightly your armor shone.

The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.

But none of that matters. When I see you, I remember that you made me want to drown rather than be myself.

I had to outrun the person you all believed me to be.

If I had married, there is much I would not have learned of myself. This has been hard and painful and horrible. But I've learned that I'm stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

He knew that many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall live" and he hoped.

That's the way things were; people liked Lily, and while they were busy liking her, Violet got things done.It never bothered Violet. She liked having things to do, and if her sister hadn't been there, they wouldn't have liked Violet any better. They'd only have ignored her more.