Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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203. “Earth is so determined to make everything that’s hard for a man doubly hard for a woman.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “The first step will be unlearning all the things you’ve taught me for my entire life.”

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

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it’s coming from a younger sister.”

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “She was the same person I had known. Had always known. Just a version that was more completely her.”

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217. “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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218. “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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219. “It’s an acquired taste.” “Why acquire a taste for something so horrid?”

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

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “Be a little less honest and a little more tactful.”

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

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226. “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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227. “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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228. “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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229. “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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230. “A gentleman doesn’t tell.”

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “All boys are their fathers.”

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234. “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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235. “You’re either good, or you’re clever.”

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236. “Why didn’t you tell me?” He clenches his hands into fists around the blankets, face set, then says, “Fine, you want to know why? Because at the end of this year, I’m not going to law school, I’m going into an asylum.”

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237. “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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238. “I’d rather not be glimpsed by men. Perhaps we can set up some sort of trap so that they fall off a cliff if they try to pluck me from the ground.”

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239. “Shout at me,” I want to tell him. “Fight back, because I deserve it.” I deserve to be fed all the ways I’ve made him feel unwanted, slapped with my own selfishness. But he’s Percy, so he doesn’t say another cruel word. Even at his worst, he’s so much better than me.”

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

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241. “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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242. “From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.”

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243. “Anything can be a compliment if you take it as one.”

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244. “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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245. “Why do people assume I know more than I do? I’m an idiot about most things.”

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246. “Perfecting my phrasing without betraying my heart is starting to feel like a complicated dance.”

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

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249. “How long can a man live with his own mind against him?”

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

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