Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I am thinking that my father lies, and maybe the foul things he’s fed me about myself for my whole bleeding life were just as untrue. That my father cheats. That my father has no pedestal from which to hand down judgment on me for my sins.”

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152. “For a woman who boasts that she doesn’t give a fig what anyone thinks of her, I certainly have a lot of party-related anxiety.”

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153. “I’ve always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time.”

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154. “This is a silence we’ve shared.”

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “And I begin to cry. Though cry seems far too gentle a word. I begin to abso-bloody-lutely sob. Felicity is kind enough to look away. Percy is kind enough not to.”

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158. “Come on.” He snuffles his face into my shoulder, which I think he’s trying to disguise as affection when really he’s using me as a towel.”

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159. “I thrive only in extremely specific conditions.”

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160. “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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161. “I’m trying to tell you I love you, you sod.”

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

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

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

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166. “Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my life?”

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “Earth is so determined to make everything that’s hard for a man doubly hard for a woman.”

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170. “In their poor imitation of French fashion, they look like pastries in a bakery window at the end of the day, trying a bit too hard to be beautiful as they wilt.”

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171. “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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172. “Music is not an art I claim to understand or enjoy, but Percy looks so happy in that moment that I feel happy too.”

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173. “The first step will be unlearning all the things you’ve taught me for my entire life.”

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174. “I have become so accustomed to living on the edge of hysteria that this sudden calm is almost more frightening.”

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

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176. “Everyone has heard stories of women like us – cautionary tales, morality plays, warnings of what will befall you if you are a girl too wild for the world, a girl who asks too many questions or wants too much. If you set off into the world alone. Everyone has heard stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them.”

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177. “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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178. “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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179. “Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it’s coming from a younger sister.”

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180. “Percy leans in suddenly, and I think he’s going to tell me something in confidence, but instead he touches his lips to my cheek, so light and fast I doubt it happened as soon as he steps back.”

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181. “Loki was convinced everyone loathed the feasts but no one dared say so for fear of appearing small-minded. Being quite confident of the size of his mind-large-and his ability to walk in heels, he was comfortable saying it.”

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182. “She was the same person I had known. Had always known. Just a version that was more completely her.”

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183. “It’s difficult to be a lady in any professional field, but particularly one no one believes exists. It’s amazing the way men find to box you out of even imaginary places.”

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184. “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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185. “It’s an acquired taste.” “Why acquire a taste for something so horrid?”

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186. “Love is not a thing you survive upon.”

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187. “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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188. “Percy sees me off at the door with more affirming words but no hug or even a pat upon the shoulder. Thank god for friends who learn to speak to you in your own language rather than making you learn theirs.”

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189. “It is impossible to explain how you can love someone so much that it’s difficult to be around him. And.”

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190. “Be a little less honest and a little more tactful.”

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

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192. “Dear Lord, you haven’t been a virgin all this while, have you?” “No, but I’m a bit concerned my virginity is starting to grow back.”

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193. “Mythology is all shite anyway,′ she says. ‘It never has stories about people like us. I’d rather write my own legends, or be the story someone else looks to one day, build a strong foundation for those who follow us.”

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194. “I’m caught between wanting to smack the pox patches off this woman’s face and to smack Percy because I’m still angry about our kiss. Perhaps I could get them both with a wide swing.”

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195. “Or rather, my idea. Both Felicity and Percy are giving me a look that clearly conveys it is I alone taking a machete to this jungle.”

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196. “A gentleman doesn’t tell.”

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197. “I want him to come lie down with me, fit his body around mine like spoons in a drawer and not ask a thing and not be bothered by the silence.”

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198. “How is my body more willing to die than take in air? Or release the fiction that there’s something wrong with me? I want to press my fingers into my ears and snuff out the noise. If only it were so easy.”

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199. “All boys are their fathers.”

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200. “And then he leaves us to our own devices beside a store of gunpowder and flint and a cannon, thereby solidifying our captors’ reputation as the worst pirates in the history of the Mediterranean.”

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