Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog.”

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

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

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104. “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.”

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

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106. “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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107. “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.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “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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110. “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.”

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111. “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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112. “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.”

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113. “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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114. “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.”

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115. “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.”

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116. “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?”

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

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118. “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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119. “And thank God, because I don’t 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.”

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120. “Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it’s coming from a younger sister.”

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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.”

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124. “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.”

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

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126. “You’re hopeless,” he says, and it is so strange and horrible and utterly lovely how the way that he’s looking at me makes me want to both back away and throw myself upon him. It hurts like a sudden light striking your eyes in the dead of night.”

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

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128. “There is nothing good about watching another man claim your ship because your skin is too dark to do it yourself,” he says, each word a glancing wound. “So in future, you needn’t demand apologies on my behalf.”

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

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131. “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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132. “It is so much easier to give into them than to try and fight them off. It’s a relief, like letting go the lead of a dog that’s been wrenching your shoulder with the force of its pulling. But now I have a dog to chase, and I’m running in circles after every catastrophic scenario, struggling to breathe.”

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “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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136. “The important bit was that if you go behind my back, I swear to God, I’ll skin you alive – ” “I won’t – ” “ – murder you, then alchemically raise you from the dead so I can murder you again –.”

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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?”

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141. “Dear. Lord. Fortune has well and truly vomited down my front in the form of Mr. Lockwood. As.”

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142. “Charm has never been a flower that blooms in your garden, has it?”

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143. “I have become a veritable scholar in seemingly innocent ploys to get his skin against mine.”

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144. “I want to touch him abso-bloody-lutely evrywhere.”

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145. “Anyone who says they enjoy my writing is clearly either lying or has terrible taste.”

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146. “I let out a shy laugh, flit my eyes down to the floor, then back to him through my lashes. His neck goes a little red. Fan-bloody-tastic.”

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147. “Was it worth it? You tool my life and my past and my family and my country and my mind. Look me in the eyes and tell me you’re proud of yourself.”

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148. “Ugh. Feelings.” I take a long drink, then pass her the bottle. She has another delicate sip. “You were right – it’s less horrid now.”

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149. “Someday, you little twat, it’s going to be more than that. The way we start doesn’t have to be where we end up.”

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150. “No one gets to decide who you are.”

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