A man must claim responsibility for his own temptation, and not pin it on the woman who arouses him. It’s a gown, Sir Mark. Not even one of my more daring ones.

— Courtney Milan

Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!

— Courtney Milan

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

— Courtney Milan

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

— Courtney Milan

He knew that many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall life" and he hoped.

— Courtney Milan

Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.

— Courtney Milan

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

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

— Courtney Milan

I adhere to the law of chastity because I don’t believe in pushing women. That’s what it means to be a man. I don’t hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don’t indulge in either. We don’t need to.

— Courtney Milan

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