Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Ladies haven’t the luxury of being squeamish about blood,” she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.”

— Mackenzi Lee

52. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

53. “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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54. “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

55. “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.”

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56. “Because women don’t have to be men’s equals to be considered contenders; they have to be better. That’s the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”

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57. “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

58. “And it’s going to be a disaster. But that’s all right, because we’ll have each other, and there’s no one on this goddamn planet I’d rather be a disaster with than you.”

— Mackenzi Lee

59. “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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60. “Maybe I was panicking. Maybe I am. Because give it a year. Or ten years. Or a life. Because I just don’t think I can do it, Perce. I don’t think I’m enough for you. And I don’t want you to do this big thing – give me this big part of yourself – just to turn around and realize you made a mistake.”

— 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.”

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62. “Pain and ecstasy live close-knit in my heart.”

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63. “The world of academic research is strange!”

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64. “Her mouth twisted into a sly smile. “How disappointing. A pretty girl’s about the only thing that would keep me in a shithole like Geneva.”

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65. “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

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

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

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

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70. “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.”

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71. “And exhaustion is a houseguest that has overstayed its welcome.”

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72. “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

73. “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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74. “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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75. “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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76. “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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77. “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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78. “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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79. “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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80. “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.”

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81. “Of course he has! I want to shout. He’s Dr. Alexander Platt, and I have excellent taste in idols!”

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82. “If you weren’t here, everything would be the worst.”

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

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84. “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.”

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85. “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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86. “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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87. “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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88. “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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89. “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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90. “Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog.”

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

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93. “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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94. “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

95. “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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96. “Be the witch, and know everything.”

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “We’re all monsters. We’re all careless and cruel in the end.”

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100. “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