Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Pain and ecstasy live close-knit in my heart.”

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

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104. “Have you ever thought,” she countered, “that maybe Oliver only acts like a monster because you treat him like one?”

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105. “Perhaps I didn’t really know anyone. Perhaps everyone was just a fiction inside my head.”

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106. “It’s never going to be perfect.”

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107. “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 moments.”

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108. “Do you know how horrid it feels to watch my brother get tossed out of the best boarding school of England, then get to travel the Continent as a reward, while I’m stuck behind, not permitted to study the same things or read the same books or even visit the same places while we’re abroad, just because I had the bad luck to be born a girl?”

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109. “Perhaps you could find something more accurate. You could call yourselves the Society where Hospitality is Ignored Totally. Or, for short –.”

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110. “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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111. “Or perhaps that’s just me assigning subterranean levels to every goddamn breath he takes.”

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112. “Come on, you enormous wrinkle.”

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

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114. “It’s nice... ” Theo repeated, his thumb skimming the rim of his teacup. “To know that there’s somewhere out there in the cosmos where people like me don’t have to be afraid.”

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115. “What am I supposed to see in this closet? More skeletons? Don’t you humans have a saying about that?”

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116. “Percy turns to me quickly, his eyes catching the light and reflecting a mischievous glint. I’m suddenly aware of my body in a way I wasn’t a moment before, every twitch and blink, the way my shoulders sit inside this too-big coat, the bob of my throat as I swallow hard, every point of my silhouette that his gaze touches. Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn’t take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.”

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

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118. “I’m learning there is no one way for life to be lived, no one way to be strong or brave or kind or good. Rather there are many people doing the best they can with the heart they are given and the hand they are dealt. Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other.”

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119. “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.”

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120. “I’m not sure how we are in the middle of a pirate siege and I’m arguing with this bigot about Percy’s nationality.”

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121. “Yes, we have quite literally followed you to the end of the earth,” Monty replied, “And there was only mild complaining.”

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

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123. “Somehow, letting our feelings out into the light had both eased so many of my fears and created an entirely new set that kept sleep at bay.”

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124. “A year is nothing!” I protest. “I’ve had dresses I wore for a year and then woke up one morning and thought, ‘Why am I wearing this insane dress that makes me look like a terrier mated with a lobster?”

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125. “It’s more that any conversation about myself makes me feel like a skinned orange, the only shield between myself and the world stripped back by sharp nails until I can be halved and squeezed.”

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126. “But we are wolves, too. We are tearing up our own pack.”

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127. “You have climbed through catacombs darker than this, you escaped from a second-story window with only your bedsheets, and you should not be frightened of the darkness, but instead be sure that the most frightening thing in it is you.”

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128. “Can we not simply be people, each of us with cogs in our brains that turn slightly differently, and some that need oiling and alignment and upkeep more than others?”

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129. “I would teach my body to regrow my heart each time I gave it to him, over and over and over again. Heart after heart after heart – every one of them his.”

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130. “It would be so much easier if I did not want to know everything so badly. If I did not want so badly to be reliant upon no soul by myself.”

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131. “Has that been your leg all this while?” “What?” He unhooks his foot from around my calf. “I thought it was the chair. Sorry about that. Dear Lord, why didn’t you say something?” Before.”

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132. “I’ve learned not to walk in with pistols drawn, but rather to keep them hidden in my petticoats with a hand surreptitiously upon the heel.”

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133. “You can’t, I am thinking. You can’t be ill because I need you and you can’t go away to die in some asylum because what am I supposed to do without you?”

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134. “I had kissed my fair share of lads who had only used me as a counterpoint to their own virtue. My primary contribution to our circles back home had been making everyone else feel grounded and well-behaved in comparison.”

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135. “I don’t think he was allowed to take supper with them when they had company, but, with some exceptions of that sort, they’ve been first-rate to him.”

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136. “The plausibility of a worry has never stopped me from asking it to dance.”

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137. “You had decided I was not to be trusted, that I was slippery and cruel and wily, because of a lot of old stories you had read about me? How disappointed you must have been when it was me who showed up instead of my brother with sunshine spurting out of his ass.”

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “When Callum and I first met, I had been lonely enough to not only accept his employment, but also the companionship that came with it, which gave him the idea that men often get in their heads when a woman pays some kind of attention to them: that it was a sign I want him to smash his mouth – and possibly other body parts – against mine. Which I do not.”

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

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145. “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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146. “It wasn’t the best strategy for dealing with emotions, but it was his strategy.”

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147. “Flanked as they are by busts of the governors before them and loomed over by all those names along the walls, I feel generations of men who have kept women from their schools staring me down. Men like this never die – they’re chiseled in marble and erected in these halls.”

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148. “He reaches out, almost as though he can’t help himself, and puts his thumb to my jawline. The tips of his fingers brush the hollow of my throat, and I feel the touch so deep I half expect that when he moves, I’ll be left with an imprint there, as though I am a thing fashioned from clay in a potter’s hands.”

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149. “And I wish in that moment that I were brave.”

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150. “I am somehow stuck with an obstinate mount that resembles less a horse and more a leggy sausage, and seems fond of ingesting my commands and then ignoring them in their entirety.”

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