Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “It wasn’t the best strategy for dealing with emotions, but it was his strategy.”

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “And I wish in that moment that I were brave.”

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156. “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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157. “There’s really nothing to do but pretend I’m fully clothed and in control of the situation. So I walk up to Percy and say, “There you are. I think we should be going.” They’re.”

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158. “The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. 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 to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other’s mouth.”

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159. “It took several thousand miles for me to begin believing that I am better than the worst things I’ve done. But I’m starting.”

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160. “Everyone wants things,” Monty says. “Everyone’s got a hunger like that. It passes. Or it gets easier to live with. It stops eating you up inside.” I scrunch my nose and sniff. Maybe everyone has hunger like this – impossible, insatiable, but all-consuming in spite of it all. Maybe the desert dreams of spilling rivers, valleys of a view. Maybe that hunger will one day pass. But if it does, I will be left shelled and halved and hollowed out, and who can live like that?”

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161. “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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162. “He raises an eyebrow, an unmistakable tread carefully, and so of course I put on my heaviest boots and start clomping through the flower gardens.”

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163. “The distance is great, and nothing is so hard to find as something that no one has yet found.”

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164. “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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165. “What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?”

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166. “I do not need reasons to exist. I do not need to justify the space I take up in this world.”

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167. “I like curling my hair and twirling in skirts with ruffles, and I like how Max looks with that big pink bow on. And that doesn’t mean I’m not still smart and capable and strong.”

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

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169. “Though I would hang on because I’d likely wash up in France, and from what I remember from the summer my family spent there when Felicity and I were young, there are some lovely women in France. Some handsome boys as well, many of whom wear their breeches very tight, though I wasn’t clear where I stood on that when I was eleven.”

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170. “Fortune favors the flirtatious.”

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171. “When he speaks again, his tone is nearer to reverence, a voice for saints and sacred places.”

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172. “We feel like changeling versions of ourselves lying here, brittle likenesses doing a mimic of the way they have seen us behave before.”

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173. “He seems like he wants to touch me, but we’ve both lost any sense of how men who haven’t kissed each other do that. He finally taps my knee, open-palmed and short, the way we used to try and hold our hands to candle flames without being burned when we were boys, and I wonder if there will ever again be a day when it doesn’t feel as though he might fly to pieces between my hands.”

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174. “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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175. “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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176. “I’ve always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time.”

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

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178. “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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179. “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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180. “I thrive only in extremely specific conditions.”

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

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182. “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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183. “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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184. “Earth is so determined to make everything that’s hard for a man doubly hard for a woman.”

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185. “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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186. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

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

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190. “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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191. “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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192. “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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193. “Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it’s coming from a younger sister.”

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194. “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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195. “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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196. “She was the same person I had known. Had always known. Just a version that was more completely her.”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “It’s an acquired taste.” “Why acquire a taste for something so horrid?”

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

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