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The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2) QUOTES

The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2) QUOTES

1 " Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'

His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

2 " I worry about you,” he finally said to Free. “I’m afraid that you’re going to break your heart, going up against the world.”

“No.” The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. “I’m going to break the world. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

3 " Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan’t be allowed to vote, and I won’t be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back—but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

4 " If people want you to stop talking, or to stop dressing the way you do, or to change who you are, it's because you hurt their eyes. We've all been trained not to stare into the sun.' - Oliver "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

5 " When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

6 " A ninnyhammer,” Jane said, “sounds like a magic hammer. One that I can use to smite ninnies. I have a great need for one of those. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

7 " Anjan was Batty because Bhattacharya had too many syllables. He’d told one man his first name; the fellow had blinked, and then had immediately dubbed him John. That’s who they thought he was: John Batty. These well-meaning English boys had taken his name as easily, and with as much jovial friendship, as their fathers had taken his country. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

8 " Jane was the most fearless woman Oliver had ever met. Sometimes, Oliver thought that society was like an infant trying to shove a square, colored block through a round hole. When it didn’t go, the child pounded harder. Oliver had been shoved through round holes so often that he’d scarcely even noticed that his edges had become rounded. But Jane…Jane persisted in being angular and square. The harder she was pushed, the more square—and the more colorful—she became. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

9 " Anything is bearable if you can fight it, but if you must sit back and take it… That breaks you in a way I can’t explain. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

10 " Are you… uh… Mr… uh…” “Yes,” he replied, because he answered to Mr. Uh almost as often as he did to his own name. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

11 " I've seen Emily's scars, and that's more than you can say.
Fairfield shrunk back from the anger in Anjan's voice. "I meant well," he whispered.
Anjan leaned forward across the desk until he was an inch from the other man. "Mean better. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

12 " He’d fallen a little bit in love with her the moment she’d said his name as if it had value. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

13 " He’d started caring more about becoming the kind of person who could make a change than he cared about the change itself. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

14 " Anjan was Batty because Bhattacharya had too many syllables. He’d told one man his first name; the fellow had blinked, and then had immediately dubbed him John. That’s who they thought he was: John Batty. These well-meaning English boys had taken his name as easily, and with as much jovial friendship, as their fathers had taken his country. And Emily had called him Bhattacharya. He’d fallen a little bit in love with her the moment she’d said his name as if it had value. His fist clenched, but he kept on smiling. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

15 " Don’t feel embarrassed,” she said. “It’s acceptable to lose the flow of conversation. Not everyone is clever enough to think of something to say immediately.” Bradenton’s lips thinned. “And you’re a marquess,” she added. “Maybe there are deficiencies in your understanding, but nobody will ever notice them so long as you make absolutely certain to introduce yourself as a marquess first. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

16 " If a rock never moves,” her sister finally said, “the water wears it away all the same. I am being hurt, Jane, and if I stay still, Titus will wear me away. Sometimes I wonder that there’s anything left of me at all. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

17 " Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

18 " Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

19 " You’re annoying. You always act as if everything is so easy. ‘Well, Oliver, it seems to me that your choice is either to quit or continue,’” he mimicked, remembering his father’s advice when he’d been on the verge of leaving school. The other man only smiled. “I’m your father. It’s my job to annoy you. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)

20 " Marshall was watching her again, and Jane’s skin prickled under his perusal. That was when Jane realized she’d made a mistake. Those freckles, his background—they’d all misled her into thinking that he was a quiet little rabbit. He wasn’t. He was the wolf that looked as if he were lounging about on the outskirts of the pack, a lone hanger-on, when in truth he had adopted that position simply so that he could see everything that transpired in the fields below. He wasn’t solitary; he was waiting for someone to make a mistake. He looked willing to wait a very long time. "

― Courtney Milan , The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)