Unraveled Quotes

“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

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

“Miranda shook her head slowly. 'Good heavens. That's quite an act you put on.'

He drew himself up haughtily. 'I beg your pardon.'

'An act,' Miranda repeated. 'Stand as tall as you like, and frown at me all you wish. I saw you just now. You were feeding cats.'

'So I was. And do you make something of that?'

'You,' Miranda said daringly, 'have a kind heart.'

He turned away from her, the tails of his greatcoat swirling about him. 'Don't enlarge too much upon the matter. The cats were hungry. I had food. This seemed to be a problem with a ready solution. It's not kindness to solve problems; it's efficiency.'

'I stand corrected. You have an efficient heart.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“She had always thought that she wanted someone to love her beyond all reason. Someone who would slay a regiment of knights to save her the slightest inconvenience.
She'd been wrong. That sort of fool left nothing but a swath of bloody knights in his wake.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“I told you I know what broken is. That is broken—staring at the wall and weeping, while creditors hammer on the door and your troupe slowly slips away, stealing the best costumes in lieu of wages. When your friends leave you and you still cannot move, and nothing your daughter says can break you out of the spell. No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen. When you told me about your mother, and how it made you resolve to be the person you are… What I thought was, ‘Yes, please, I’ll take him.’ Because you didn’t break.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“Love will never magically make me whole. It won’t heal old wounds. But when I’m around you, I do not feel as if I must be alone. I smile when you’re in the room and I laugh when you’re happy. I feel as if I’ve come home to you.” He slid his fingers up her arm, around her back. “There isn’t one part of me that you’ve flinched from. I don’t know why you’d marry me, but I know why I’m desperate for you. Nobody else on earth would bring me to myself as you have.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“Smite,” she asked softly, “do you have any idea what to say to me in a situation like this?”

“Of course I do,” he retorted. “I have plenty of ideas.” He met her gaze ruefully. “Of course, they’re all wrong, and so I’m totally at sea.”

She patted the cushion next to her. He crossed the room and lowered himself down. And then, because he didn’t seem inclined to do it himself, she picked up his hand and slid it around her shoulders.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“If you were a shadowy, anonymous figure, it made sense to pretend everything had gone according to some diabolical plan. Never mind if it hadn't.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“What part of your duty am I?"

He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“If that door opens now, of course,” he murmured in her ear, “I can step away and only the flush in your cheeks will raise suspicion.” His hands continued to chart a dangerous course over her body. He stroked her, caressed her, until she strained against him. He kissed the back of her neck. “So I think we should remove any doubt as to what is happening.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he kept bottled inside him came out. He shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. 'At the moment,' he muttered numbly, 'I may be coming a bit unraveled.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“You anchor me without holding me down. You frighten me without threatening my future. You're unflinchingly devoted. I love you.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“Miranda, how in God's name did you end up here?"
"Well," Miranda said. "It's a sweet tale, about kittens and puppies and rainbows and love.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“sometimes I wish that this quest had not come to me. Justice is an impossible beast to track. The trail is lonely, and she offers no reward when she's caught but the promise of another hunt.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“It was fascinating to watch her spin the tale. She’d adjusted her accent yet again, adding just a twitch of country. She looked up at him with just the right amount of girlish adoration. As if they were deeply in love and barely beginning to discover one another.

He couldn’t help looking back with the same expression. He wasn’t dissembling.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“I hate having second thoughts,” he muttered. “Necessary, for second chances,” Dalrymple put in.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“After she left, he stood as still as he dared, listening to the sound of the cart recede into the distance. Listening, past all hope of hearing her. He wasn't even conscious of breathing, and yet his lungs ached fiercely. He had been wrong. It would have been easier if it had slain him. But he was still standing. Still cogent. And that meant he was all too aware of how badly it hurt. He clutched her hairpin until the metal cunt into the palm of his hand, unable to let even that much go.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“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.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“Maybe he was cold, but sometimes ice burned.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

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

“He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“It would be like loving the ocean, but wishing it would change into a glass of water.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“I believe you’re speaking English, Turner, but I’m not sure you’re doing a good job of it. It makes a girl wonder what you meant by, ‘Here, let me take you to gaol.’” “I always mean precisely what I say, even if I don’t say precisely what I”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“I believe you’re speaking English, Turner, but I’m not sure you’re doing a good job of it. It makes a girl wonder what you meant by, ‘Here, let me take you to gaol.’” “I always mean precisely what I say, even if I don’t say precisely what I mean.” She”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“People always claimed to want such things when they faced the harsh light of judgment. With the prospect of punishment looming over their heads, they would promise anything.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled