Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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3. “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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4. “The world of academic research is strange!”

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5. “What we once were, that you are now. What we are now, soon you shall be.”

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6. “You’ve not been an idiot. It’s hard to believe that the people we love can do terrible things to us.”

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7. “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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8. “Not all monsters do monstrous things.”

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “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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12. “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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13. “Men are such babies.”

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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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17. “In my defence, I was left unsupervised.”

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18. “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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19. “I am not weak,” Loki said. “I am not your villain, and I am not your fool. I am a protector of my homeland.” He thrust his hand in the air. “For Asgard!”

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

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22. “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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23. “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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24. “You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.”

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

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

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

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29. “The room is warm and smells like dust, and just the presence of so many books makes it easier to breathe. It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.”

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30. “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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31. “Which is how I come to be running through the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, dressed only as Nature intended.”

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32. “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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33. “He could be the witch. He could be the villain. He could be the trickster, the schemer, the self-serving God of Chaos, prove the mythology books right. Prove them all right in what they had all thought, that he was rotten from the start. He would serve no man but himself, no heart but his own. That would be his choice. He could be the witch. Be the witch, and know everything.”

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34. “If it is selfish to want, then selfishness will be my weapon.”

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35. “So long as you don’t go falling in love with me.” I don’t know why I say it. Call it battlements around my helpless heart. Percy looks away from me fast, shoulders curling up. It almost looks like a flinch. But then he says, “I’ll try my best.” He.”

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36. “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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37. “Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”

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

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40. “Am I having a stroke? Not only are all the words I wish to say putting themselves in a random order in my brain, but I’m almost certain my voice is far too loud and my movements far too exaggerated.”

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

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

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43. “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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44. “You’re trying to play a game designed by men. You’ll never win, because the deck is stacked and marked, and also you’ve been blindfolded and set on fire. You can work hard and believe in yourself and be the smartest person in the room and you’ll still get beat by the boys who haven’t two cents to rub together.”

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

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46. “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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47. “Be the witch, and know everything.”

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

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49. “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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50. “I feel manic, teetering on the edge of insanity. The urgency chews through me, the need to go, the inability to understand why no one else feels like their brain is on fire. I’m vibrating with it.”

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