Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I want to know everything about my own self and never to have to rely on someone else to tell me the way I work.”

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

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

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

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55. “I want to sleep, I think. I want to stop struggling and give in. I want to let the water take me and never have to be in my own company again. I want to stop dragging myself around, stop feeling the weight of every thought like they’re stones pulling me farther and farther under, the seafloor and surface both out of sight. I want to stop feeling weak just because some days, I can hardly carry my heavy heart.”

— Mackenzi Lee

56. “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. Every chink and rut and battering wind has made us tough and brave and impossible to strike down. We are mountains – or perhaps temples, with foundations that could outlast time itself.”

— Mackenzi Lee

57. “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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58. “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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59. “What we once were, that you are now. What we are now, soon you shall be.”

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60. “You can’t make people the way you want them to be, Alasdair. Sometimes you just have to love them how they are.”

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61. “I understand what it’s like to feel you’ll never see the sun again. But you can learn to see in the dark. Or, if not, you trust that night doesn’t last forever.”

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62. “It wasn’t the first time I’d thought it – wouldn’t be the last either, though I didn’t know that then – but it was the first time I’d said it aloud, to anyone. It’s a strange thing, to want to die. Stranger still when you don’t feel you deserve to get away so easily.”

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63. “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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64. “Let’s get one thing straight,” I interrupt, jerking my arm out of his grip with such force that I nearly knock out the woman standing behind me. “You are not my father, I am not your responsibility, and I did not come here to have a list of my faults related from him or be condemned for who I associate with-not by you or that damned duke. So while it’s been a jolly good time, being treated like a child all evening, I think I’ve just about had enough and I can make my own way from here.”

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65. “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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66. “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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67. “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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68. “And maybe we can’t make it work. But maybe we’re tough and we’re stupid and we’re going to try anyway.”

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69. “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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70. “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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71. “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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72. “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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73. “Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog.”

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74. “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.”

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

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76. “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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77. “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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78. “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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79. “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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80. “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.”

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “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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85. “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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86. “You might be the only person left on earth who thinks me decent.”

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87. “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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88. “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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89. “What do you want me to say? Yes, I’m ill. I’m an epileptic – that’s my lot. It isn’t easy and it isn’t very enjoyable but this is what I’ve got to live with. This is who I am, and I don’t think I’m insane. I don’t think I should be locked up and I don’t think I need to be cured of it for my life to be good. But no one seems to agree with me on that, and I was hoping you’d be different, but apparently you think just the same as my family and my doctors and everyone else.”

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90. “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.”

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91. “Perhaps fashion is just a reinforcement of a lady’s chastity, in hopes that the interested party may lose interest and abandon any deflowering attempts simply for all the clothing in the way.”

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92. “Reading in excess causes the female brain to shrink.”

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93. “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.”

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94. “So I spend several days in lonely solitude, not wanting to initiate conversation but also desperate for it, but also certain that once I have it, the only things I’ll want is to be back in my cabin, alone.”

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95. “I would rather have my eyes gouged out with sucket forks and fed back to me, but it seems best not to tell him so.”

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

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97. “I would then write and rewrite and edit and rewrite and edit more and scrutinise the language until it no longer sounded like English and I had convinced myself was illiterate and no one had ever had the heart to tell me.”

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98. “Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”

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99. “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.”

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100. “It’s my whole childhood, being sneered at by watery girls for a joke I didn’t understand because I was reading books they could never understand.”

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