Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “You might be the only person left on earth who thinks me decent.”

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104. “If the Good Lord didn’t want men to play with themselves, we’d have hooks for hands.”

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105. “Between the near-kiss with Percy and now goddamned pirates, my heart is certainly being put through its paces today.”

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106. “The truth is that Percy has always been important to me, long before I fell so hard for him there was an audible crash. It’s only lately that his knee bumping mine under a narrow pub table leaves me fumbling for words. 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.”

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107. “Well, one is illegal. And a sin. And the other is also a sin, if you aren’t married to her.”

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108. “That’s the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”

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109. “You took my life and Oliver’s life and made them into this book. You made us into monsters, both of us.”

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110. “I want to take the raw ore I have been given and forge it into a blade. I want to be brave enough to think I can do any of that. To believe that is a life I deserve.”

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111. “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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112. “It had felt like the first deep breath I’d ever taken, to tell him everything, to hear his half of it all, then hold them up together to find they fit like two pieces of cracked pottery.”

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113. “It’s an approximation of looking presentable, though he still looks less like a gentleman and more like the raw ore mined to create one.”

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114. “So, everything seemed to be going great in Christina’s court, where “Single Ladies” played on repeat and there were free JSTOR credentials for all.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “Reading in excess causes the female brain to shrink.”

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “But I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales.”

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

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “Ladies haven’t the luxury of being squeamish about blood.”

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

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

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

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131. “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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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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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135. “Or perhaps that’s just me assigning subterranean levels to every goddamn breath he takes.”

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136. “Come on, you enormous wrinkle.”

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

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

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

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “Hollow yourself or the fear eats you alive.”

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “But we are wolves, too. We are tearing up our own pack.”

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150. “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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