226 Quotes by Courtney Milan

What do you see?” asked Ned, his voice hushed.“I see…I see…an elephant.”“Elephant,” Lord Blakely repeated, as he transcribed herwords. “I hope that isn’t the extent of your prediction.Unless, Ned, you plan to marry into the genus Loxodonta.”Ned blinked. “Loxo-wha?”“Comprised, among others, of pachyderms.

Quizá Dios daba hermanas a la gente para enseñarle a amar lo inexplicable.

I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.

Never hit a man with a closed fist," he told her. He could feel her pulse."Why? Because it gives you an excuse to manhandle me?"He let go. "Slap his face instead.""Ha.""It will make him take you less seriously, and then he won't be expecting it when you knee him in the groin.

Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.

I’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.

He felt as if he'd woken up, weak and confused, only to be told that he'd spent the last three weeks in bed with a fever--and that during his illness, Queen Victoria had abdicated the throne and run off with a lion-tamer from Birmingham. The world seemed an entirely different place.

I earned this, fair and square." We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and... rectangularly. That would have to do.

But to call it looking was like calling an eighteen-course feast a snack.