Brecklyn

“Decide if you want to change the world, or let the world change you.”
― 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

“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

“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