Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “You’re being sarcastic.” “No, actually I was being flippant, but I can do sarcastic if you’d rather.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

54. “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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55. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

56. “But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales. Rare and uncultivated, difficult to find, impossible to forget.”

— Mackenzi Lee

57. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

58. “Another storybook hero to swoop in and rescue a girl from a dragon or a monster or herself – they’re all the same. A woman must be protected, must be sheltered, must be kept from the winds that would batter her into the earth. But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales. Rare and uncultivated, difficult to find, impossible to forget.”

— Mackenzi Lee

59. “It’s not the moment the world splits in two, it’s all the days after, trying to live a cleaved life and pretend you never knew it whole and don’t feel the space of that missing piece that can never be repaired or replaced. Even the best facsimiles fall short.”

— Mackenzi Lee

60. “I like curling my hair and twirling in skirts with ruffles, and I like how Max looks with that big pink bow on. And that doesn’t mean I’m not still smart and capable and strong.”

— Mackenzi Lee

61. “Fortune favors the flirtatious.”

— Mackenzi Lee

62. “His own heart always twisted no matter how high he raised his chin in defiance.”

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63. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

64. “It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.”

— Mackenzi Lee

65. “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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66. “Ladies haven’t the luxury of being squeamish about blood.”

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67. “It’s beginning to feel like he’s shuffling his way through the seven deadly sins, in ascending order of my favourites.”

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68. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

69. “Anything can be a compliment if you take it as one.”

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70. “Why do people assume I know more than I do? I’m an idiot about most things.”

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71. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

72. “I want life to be a feast, even if I have to eat it raw and bloody and burned some days.”

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73. “We’re all monsters. We’re all careless and cruel in the end.”

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74. “Hollow yourself or the fear eats you alive.”

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75. “My hands are upon his face, mirror to the spot where I’ll carry red, puckered scars for the rest of my life. In his gaze, they seem to matter less. 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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

76. “I was almost always with someone because I was bored and hated myself, and it was something to do that wasn’t about either of those things.”

— Mackenzi Lee

77. “We’re not courting trouble,” I say. “Flirting with it, at most.”

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78. “A small shift in the gravity between us and suddenly all my stars are out of alignment, planets knocked from their orbits, and I’m left stumbling, without map or heading, through the bewildering territory of being in love with your best friend.”

— Mackenzi Lee

79. “There are bodies buried beneath the flagstones of my parents’ estate, and some graves never green.”

— Mackenzi Lee

80. “I’ve always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious.”

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81. “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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82. “But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales.”

— Mackenzi Lee

83. “I want to be the only thing touching him. I want to be the only thing that ever touches him again. I will be envious of every shirt he ever wears, the cuffs of his coats, the trousers going soft with wear where they rub his inner thighs.”

— Mackenzi Lee

84. “For a woman who boasts that she doesn’t give a fig what anyone thinks of her, I certainly have a lot of party-related anxiety.”

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85. “I make a snatch for Percy’s hand, and he laces his fingers with mine and gives them a squeeze. Fetch me a couch, for I nearly swoon.”

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86. “He seems like he wants to touch me, but we’ve both lost any sense of how men who haven’t kissed each other do that. He finally taps my knee, open-palmed and short, the way we used to try and hold our hands to candle flames without being burned when we were boys, and I wonder if there will ever again be a day when it doesn’t feel as though he might fly to pieces between my hands.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

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88. “I should have known I wasn’t a forest fire, but a small flame that could be snuffed out easily by the first man who turned my way with a heavy breath.”

— Mackenzi Lee

89. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

90. “I have spent so long building up my fortress and learning to tend it all myself, because if I didn’t feel I needed anyone, then I wouldn’t miss them if they weren’t there. I couldn’t be neglected if I was everything to myself.”

— Mackenzi Lee

91. “Every chink and rut and battering wind has made is tough and brave and impossible to strike down.”

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92. “It’s an acquired taste.” “Why acquire a taste for something so horrid?”

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93. “Maybe everyone has hunger like this – impossible, insatiable, but all-consuming in spite of it all. Maybe the desert dreams of spilling rivers, valleys of a view. Maybe that hunger will one day pass. But if it does, I will be left shelled and halved and hollowed.”

— Mackenzi Lee

94. “Returning to a place you once knew as well as your own shadow isn’t the same as never leaving at all.”

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95. “And I begin to cry. Though cry seems far too gentle a word. I begin to abso-bloody-lutely sob. Felicity is kind enough to look away. Percy is kind enough not to.”

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96. “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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97. “But you seem very bright. Or if not bright, you’re at least confident. And often people can’t tell those two things apart.”

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98. “Then maybe I should have said it to you sooner – you needn’t hide around us. I’m sorry you ever felt you had to. And that the world makes you feel as though you have to.”

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99. “But he was not his brother. Insolence would not be a sign of strength, but defiance. He and his brother may play the same game of his father’s devising, but the rules would never be the same. Darkness moves in a different way than the light. It is always there before the light. It has to be faster, and smarter, and stealthier.”

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100. “I feel strange suddenly, the old itch of fear that I am a feral girl in a domesticated world, watched by everybody with pity and concern.”

— Mackenzi Lee