The Devil Comes Courting Quotes

“It took some real inattention to detail, reality, and history to call either the Chinese or the varied nations that made up what Britain called India uncivilized, but then English propriety was that rare combination of inattention to everything that mattered coupled with a minute fascination with everything that didn’t.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“It had felt to her like a horrible breach of manners to show up in someone else’s country and to tell them they were doing everything wrong, and as a consequence, God intended for them all to go to hell.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Decide if you want to change the world, or let the world change you.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“She will have to want to do it, want it enough that she won’t quit midway. She’ll have to want it enough that she’ll work through all the frustration so she can persevere to the end. When you need someone to have a will of her own, you can’t just bend her to yours.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Sometimes she was absentminded. Sometimes it was far better to be absent from reality than present for its harshest truths.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“He was her brother by history. By love. By choice.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“I walked this path,” she said. “But you told me it was here.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Did you just trip?” he asked. “While sitting down?” “Impossible,” she muttered into the carpet.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Where do you think we should link next?”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“You can’t be a bridge to someone who tries to steal the ground from beneath your feet. You will break your heart trying to find steady footing, and it will never come.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“There is one rule that is useful all the world over… In short, be humble; and apologize to the officials for not knowing their ceremonies as you should, asking that your shortcomings may be attributed to ignorance, not to lack of good intention.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Belonging in two places makes you a bridge. Not many people can do that. Look at what you’ve done to bring people together.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Grayson thought about apologizing, but he’d been raised to believe apologies were meaningless without changed behavior, and he didn’t know how to change.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“I have just realized that I was told to tell the truth, but when I did, my truth was not wanted. It has left my mind somewhat muddled. I am working to correct this flaw.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“Love is a gift, he’d been told, and wanting to love things is a bigger gift. Let him be.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“The haggling was apparently going well since both parties were claiming the deal would send them into bankruptcy.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“You make mistakes when you want things too much. You have to stop and ask yourself if it’s right, if it makes sense, or if you’re only deluding yourself.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

“When the devil comes courting,’” she quoted, dropping into that same imitated voice once again, “‘he offers you what you want.”
― Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting