Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?”

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

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

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

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

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

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159. “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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160. “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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161. “No one gets to decide who you are.”

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

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163. “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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164. “You’re either good, or you’re clever.”

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165. “The bricks tear at my coat like briars as I pull his hips to mine so I can feel him going stiff.”

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166. “I think I’m going to have worse than revising scripture to answer for when He and I meet.”

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “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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170. “But we are wolves, too. We are tearing up our own pack.”

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”

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177. “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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178. “It’s never going to be perfect.”

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

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

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

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

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183. “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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184. “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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185. “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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186. “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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187. “Not a man is going to protect me, because this is a woman’s fight, and we are going to protect ourselves!”

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188. “Lakshmibai was forced to abandon Jhansi, but she left it the same way she fought for it– on horseback, with her song strapped to her back.”

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189. “Someday, you little twat, I’d tell him, it’s going to be more. It’s going to be better, and so will you. Where we start doesn’t have to be where we end up.”

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190. “One of my maids found a pair of your breeches in the harpsichord this morning. I believe they were the same ones you left the house in last night.”

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191. “I don’t think I have to be well to be happy.”

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192. “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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193. “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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194. “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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195. “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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196. “The plausibility of a worry has never stopped me from asking it to dance.”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “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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200. “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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