Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Thank God for friends who learn to speak to you in your own language rather than making you learn theirs.”

— Mackenzi Lee

52. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

53. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

54. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

55. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

56. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

59. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Mackenzi Lee

64. “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

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

67. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

71. “Fortune favors the flirtatious.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

73. “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

74. “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

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

78. “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

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

82. “Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog.”

— Mackenzi Lee

83. “Somehow nothing’s changed, and everything has.”

— Mackenzi Lee

84. “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

85. “It’s hard for me to think of anything other than what he might be thinking, and what this night means to him, and if it’s the same as for me.”

— Mackenzi Lee

86. “I’d fall in love with me, if I met me.”

— Mackenzi Lee

87. “My head’s higher than his, but we’re close enough that I can see the freckles beneath his eyes. If I had to pick a favorite part of Percy’s face – which would be impossible, really, but if held at gunpoint and forced to make a selection – it would be that small star-map across his skin. A part of him it feels as though no one else but me is ever close enough to see.”

— Mackenzi Lee

88. “Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn’t help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.”

— Mackenzi Lee

89. “Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes up to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue into the other’s mouth.”

— Mackenzi Lee

90. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

91. “I think we are all capable of things we’d never imagine.” Her voice was light but layered as pastry. She knew what it was like, to live with a birthright that felt precarious and fragile.”

— Mackenzi Lee

92. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

93. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

94. “What I meant is that I sometimes feel as though everyone around me is trying so hard to be complicated and coy all the time, but you’re so sincere in everything. You make me remember people can mean what they say.”

— Mackenzi Lee

95. “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

96. “He seems like he wants to touch me, but we’ve lost any sense of how men who haven’t kissed each other do that.”

— Mackenzi Lee

97. “I have challenged fate to chess and am now attempting to keep all my confidence from puddling in my boots. What if I’m the only one betting on myself because everyone but me can see I am not suited to play at all?”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

99. “Let me dream that there is something unquestionably pure in this world.”

— Mackenzi Lee

100. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee