226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

Lucky you that you can plan and think and plot without pretense. That you can want openly, that you don't have to stuff it all inside yourself to molder. Lucky you that you can lift your eyes to the sky without singeing your wings. Lucky you that you can consider the future without terror.

I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.

My most ardent wish is that you, and everyone like you, will look up. That you’ll do so and never be beaten into the ground again. I write handbills because I can write those words without fear of reprisal—because if I am discovered, the House of Lords will never prosecute me. I write because those words must be written. I write because to not write, to not speak, would be to waste what I have been given.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Ned: I figured it was time for a picnic by the menagerie.Jenny: And you brought me? Why not take the woman you're marrying?Ned: She's grown up with the Duke of Ware. Lions seem less ferocious.

She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.

They want a woman who is a canvas, white and empty. Standing still, existing for no other purpose than to serve as a mute object onto which they can paint their own hopes and desires. They want their brides veiled. They want a demure, blank space they can fill with whatever they desire.”“Miss Lowell, you magnificent creature, I want you to paint your own canvas. I want you to unveil yourself.

We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.

He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.