Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Or perhaps that’s just me assigning subterranean levels to every goddamn breath he takes.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

207. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

208. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

209. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

215. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

217. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

218. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

219. “No one gets to decide who you are.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

224. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

225. “Yes, we have quite literally followed you to the end of the earth,” Monty replied, “And there was only mild complaining.”

— Mackenzi Lee

226. “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?”

— Mackenzi Lee

227. “But we are wolves, too. We are tearing up our own pack.”

— Mackenzi Lee

228. “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?”

— Mackenzi Lee

229. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

230. “And you should not be frightened of the darkness, but instead be sure that the most frightening thing in it is you.”

— Mackenzi Lee

231. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

232. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

235. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee

243. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

244. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

245. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

246. “Not a man is going to protect me, because this is a woman’s fight, and we are going to protect ourselves!”

— Mackenzi Lee

247. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

248. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

249. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

— Mackenzi Lee