Top 250 Mackenzi Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

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

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

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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “Be a little less honest and a little more tactful.”

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

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “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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214. “A gentleman doesn’t tell.”

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215. “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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216. “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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217. “All boys are their fathers.”

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

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220. “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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221. “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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222. “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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223. “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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224. “Be the witch, and know everything.”

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

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226. “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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227. “Then maybe I should have said it to you sooner – you needn’t hide around us. I’m sorry you ever felt you had to. And that the world makes you feel as though you have to.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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238. “We’re all monsters. We’re all careless and cruel in the end.”

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239. “Girls like me are meant to have books instead of friends.”

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

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241. “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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242. “What I meant is that I sometimes feel as though everyone around me is trying so hard to be complicated and coy all the time, but you’re so sincere in everything. You make me remember people can mean what they say.”

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

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244. “We’re not courting trouble,” I say. “Flirting with it, at most.”

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

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

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247. “The truth is that Percy has always been important to me, long before I fell so hard for him there was an audible crash. It’s only lately that his knee bumping mine under a narrow pub table leaves me fumbling for words. 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.”

— Mackenzi Lee

248. “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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249. “That’s the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”

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250. “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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