Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I ruined everything. I always ruin everything.”

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2. “We look at each other. The city boils around us. I want to strike flint and set it aflame. Burn everything from the sky down and start the world over.”

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3. “Not all monsters do monstrous things.”

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4. “I’m sorry,” she says. “What for?” “You’ve had a rough go.” “Everyone has a rough go. I’ve had it far easier than most people.” “Maybe. But that doesn’t mean your feelings matter less.”

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5. “You’re already the villain in everyone’s stories, Loki,” she replied, dropping her veil over her face. “Why not start playing your part?”

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6. “That was the trap of seeing the future, Loki had begun to think – if Odin had never looked into it, never seen Loki leading an army, he might be considering him for kingship. And if her were king, why would he lead an army against his own people? Perhaps the future was only inevitable once you began to shape all your actions to fit it.”

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7. “Your beauty is not a tax you are required to pay to take up space in this world, I remind myself, and my hand flits unconsciously to my pocket where my list is still tucked. You deserve to be here.”

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8. “We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved. “May I kiss you?” I ask. “Abso-bloody-lutely you may,” he says. And so I do.”

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9. “If you can’t win the game, you have to cheat.”

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10. “It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in.”

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11. “I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

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12. “I feel like a shipwreck. A house fire nothing but bodies can be pulled from. So full of gaping boards and fallen walls that some days, there doesn’t even seem a foundation worth rebuilding upon.”

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13. “There is a unique sort of agony to entering a party alone.”

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14. “It occurs to me then that perhaps getting my little sister drunk and explaining why I screw boys is not the most responsible move on my part.”

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15. “Your beauty is not a tax you are required to pay to take up space in this world.”

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16. “The colours of the universe are there because of the existence of womankind.”

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17. “In the company of women like this – sharp-edged as raw diamonds but with soft hands and hearts, not strong in spite of anything but powerful because of everything – I feel invincible.”

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18. “I want friends, good friends that make up a different kind of family... It wouldn’t be lonely. I’d like to be on my own, but not alone.”

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19. “You are a shield and spear to all the things you love. I’m glad to be among them.”

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20. “Men are such babies.”

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21. “You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.”

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22. “It’s a strange feeling, realizing that other people you don’t know have their own full lives that don’t touch yours. I.”

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23. “Perhaps the future was only inevitable once you began to shape all your actions to fit it.”

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24. “Epilepsy,” he repeats, then covers his face with his hands so it comes out muffled when he says it again. “I have epilepsy.”

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25. “Yes, for education. An actual education, not finishing school – they’re going to squeeze me into corsets and bully me into silence.”

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26. “In my defence, I was left unsupervised.”

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27. “I’m desperate not to let all my stupid hope fill the silence between us but it’s filtering in anyway, like water running through the canyons that longing has spent years carving.”

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28. “No arruines una buena historia contando la verdad”.”

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29. “There’s no other choice. You live with it. You keep moving. You keep trying.”

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30. “The first step will be unlearning all the things you’ve taught me for my entire life. It took several thousand miles for me to begin believing that I am better than the worst things I’ve done. But I’m starting.”

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31. “I mean, it feels as though if I don’t devote my attention to whatever fake scenario I’ve come up with, then I won’t be ready when it happens.”

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32. “And Percy is right there beside me on that beautiful, glowing street and he is just as beautiful and glowing as it is. The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared seconds.”

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33. “I want to stop picking at life like it’s a meal I don’t want to eat, because I want to. I want to taste it all. I want life to be a feast, even if I have to eat it raw and bloody and burned some days. I will pick bones from my teeth. I will let the juice drip down my chin.”

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34. “Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other. And, zounds, that is more than enough.”

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35. “I do not want simple. I do not want easy or small or uncomplicated. I want my life to be messy and ugly and wicked and wild, and I want to feel it all. All those things that women are made to believe they are strange for harboring in their hearts. And I want to surround myself with those same strange, wicked women who throw themselves open to all the wondrous things this world has to offer.”

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36. “God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”

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37. “I think I want a house of my own,” I start, the words a discovery as they leave my mouth. “Something small, so I don’t have much housework, but enough room for a proper library. I want a lot of books. And I wouldn’t mind a good old dog to walk with me. And a bakery I go to every morning where they know my name.”

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38. “Thank God for friends who learn to speak to you in your own language rather than making you learn theirs.”

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39. “The world could have been a blank canvas and I still would have been exactly this livid with happiness, just to be with him.”

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40. “Say something, Monty. Be a friend, be a gentleman, be a human being. It’s Percy, your best friend, Percy who you’ve gotten foxed with, who plays you his violin, who used to spit apple seeds at you from high up in the orchard treetops. Percy who you kissed in Paris, who looks so damn beautiful, even now. Say something kind. Something that will make him stop looking so alone and afraid.”

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41. “My character was forged by independence and self-sufficiency in the face of loneliness, so I assumed the tools for survival were already in my kit, it was just a matter of learning to use them. But not only do I not have the tools, I have no plans and no supplies and seem to be working in a different medium entirely.”

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42. “You’re being sarcastic.” “No, actually I was being flippant, but I can do sarcastic if you’d rather.”

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43. “He knew what it was to be cast out and unwanted and taunted for the fabric you were stitched from. To want to find strength and pride in the things that made you you in spite of the world telling you that you should hide them. It was a particular kind of dissonance that was hard to understand until your ears rang with it.”

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44. “All those thing women are made to believe they are strange for harboring in their hearts. And I want to surround myself with those same strange, wicked women who throw themselves open to all the wondrous things the world has to offer.”

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45. “I wish I could be better for you.” She looks over at me, and I duck my head, shame sinking its teeth in. “I’m older and I know I’m supposed to be... an example, I don’t know. At least someone you aren’t embarrassed of.” “You do fine.” “I don’t.” “You’re right, you don’t. But you’re getting better. And that isn’t nothing.”

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46. “For a delirious moment, I am possessed by the insanity the poets hath called love, and it makes me want to reach forward and take both those hands in mine.”

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47. “When our eyes meet, his mouth rises into a smile, almost as though he can’t help himself, and then I’m smiling too, and then his goes wider, and it seems we might be caught in an infinite loop of beaming at each other like fools. And I wouldn’t mind it a bit.”

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48. “You might be the only person left on earth who thinks me decent.”

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49. “Ladies haven’t the luxury of being squeamish about blood,” she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.”

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50. “I wish I could travel backward in time and tell Monty of two years ago, lying on the lawn of his father’s house with a black eye and a dawning realization he was falling in love with his best friend, that someday he’d be here.”

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