Courtney Milan Quotes

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

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you - and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long.
Gareth: No. Lord Blakely could not. Not unless he had someone he could trust to run his estates in his absence. And Lord Blakely...Well, Lord Blakely did not trust anyone.
Jenny: Lord Blakely is talking about himself in the third person, past tense. Its disturbing.

You could make me say it again," he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.

You anchor me without holding me down. You frighten me without threatening my future. You're unflinchingly devoted. I love you.

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.

What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them

This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

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

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

After everything we’ve done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify.

...having you as a friend wasn’t second prize. It wasn’t something to chafe against. It was an honor.