A Kiss for Midwinter Quotes

“He knew he tended toward gloom. It made him consider blood poisoning and heart attacks when someone else might see a touch of indigestion. Those carefully considered worst-case scenarios made him a good doctor, but they also made him feel like a dark little raincloud.

When Lydia Charingford was around, though, he felt like a smiling dark little raincloud.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“Miss Charingford.” The words seemed unwillingly wrested from his chest.

“Yes?”

“You are only the eleventh prettiest woman in all of Leicester until you open your mouth.”

Her mouth dropped open. To insult her, atop all the other horrible, awful, impolite, unacceptable things that he’d said? “Thank you so much for those kind words, Grantham,” she snapped out. “I’m glad to know that my mannerisms so sink me.”

But this time, he didn’t smile at her; his eyes didn’t sparkle with that familiar mischief. “Once you speak,” he said, “you have no equal.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“If he were another person entirely, he might burst into flowery speech. If he did, she’d probably laugh at him. Besides, he didn’t believe in pretending to be anyone other than who he was. Even if she swooned at whatever poetic nonsense he managed to spout, she would only be disappointed once they grew comfortable with each other and he went back to making jokes about death and gonorrhea.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“I wasn’t going to be a bit of rubbish just because he discarded me.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“I only said I would stop talking to you, he’d written. I never promised to stop loving you.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“Jonas had never been able to manage that sort of small conversation. The labyrinthine rules attached to kind words usually left him bemused. And Miss Charingford was so good at it. He could have watched her make people smile for hours.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“the way he talked to her. It was outrageous. It was blunt. It was impossible. And it was ... precisely what she needed, the truth boned and filleted without garnish or flourish, placed in front of her for her decision. He made her wants seem ordinary instead of dark and dangerous.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“I believe,” he said, “that there is a special place in hell for those who steal truth. And that man—whoever he is—I hope he is burning there.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“If I’ve learned anything, it's that we know next to nothing. Disease is a mystery. Health is inscrutable. The body itself is scarcely understood; we can only examine the secrets of the dead. And in all that dark ignorance, we're sometimes granted a rare moment of illumination. The truth is a gift.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“The way he looked at her made her heart thump, her breath catch. For a second, those dark eyes seemed to have no end to them, as if she were looking into a hall of mirrors and seeing reflection upon reflection echoing into infinity.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“He wanted her to lift her head at this moment. He wanted her to look him in the eyes and realize that he loved her. He wanted her to love him back.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“I am constantly amazed by you,” he said. “To say that you view the world through rose-colored glasses would be the greatest of understatements. You don’t just see things tinted in pink; you see a world that is pink all the way through.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“He could have been married last year, but for his fascination with Lydia Charingford. The mornings when he tipped his hat to her on the street were always the brightest. He smiled when he saw her. He saw so little hope in the world, and she saw far too much. There were days he wanted to sit and watch her, to figure out where all that good cheer came from.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“The part that makes me angriest,” she whispered into his chest, “is that I miss this. I miss being held. I miss the feel of lips on mine, of arms around me. I miss the feel of warmth.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“You are only the eleventh prettiest woman in all of Leicester until you open your mouth.” Her mouth dropped open. To insult her, atop all the other horrible, awful, impolite, unacceptable things that he’d said? “Thank you so much for those kind words, Grantham,” she snapped out. “I’m glad to know that my mannerisms so sink me.” But this time, he didn’t smile at her; his eyes didn’t sparkle with that familiar mischief. “Once you speak,” he said, “you have no equal.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“Work your way on to number twelve,” she snapped. “Number eleven wants nothing more to do with you.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“Those carefully considered worst-case scenarios made him a good doctor, but they also made him feel like a dark little raincloud. When Lydia Charingford was around, though, he felt like a smiling dark little raincloud.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

“Rest easy, Miss Charingford,” he said. “I wasn’t attempting to seduce you. I had come to no conclusions about your virtue. I was only talking to you because you were the eleventh prettiest young lady in Leicester.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter