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1 " It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very mush like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
2 " Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood. "
― Mackenzi Lee
3 " 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. "
― Mackenzi Lee , This Monstrous Thing
4 " You’re either good, or you’re clever. "
5 " We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end. "
6 " In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. It is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. It is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken.""Why are you telling me this?" I ask.At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival. "
7 " I've learned not to walk in with pistols drawn, but rather to keep them hidden in my petticoats with a hand surreptitiously upon the heel. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
8 " ... the feeling that you’re not so much living your life as just trying to push through it won’t last forever. Someday you’ll be able to breathe. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
9 " Because women don't have to be men's equals to be considered contenders; they have to be better. That's the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal. "
10 " There is a unique sort of agony to entering a party alone. "
11 " Her mouth twisted into a sly smile. "How disappointing. A pretty girl's about the only thing that would keep me in a shithole like Geneva. "
12 " It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in. "
13 " 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. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue & The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy By Mackenzi Lee 2 Books Collection Set
14 " Darkness moves in a different way than the light. It is always there before the light. It has to be faster, and smarter, and stealthier. Loki was not his father. He was not his brother, or his mother. He was Amora, and she had been led away in chains and banished to Midgard. He had to be smarter and stealthier than she had been. He had to learn everything he could, and never let on how much he knew. He did not feel like a prince. He may never be king. He wasn't made to be a soldier, and he wasn't certain if he wanted to be a villain. He wasn't certain if he had any say in that matter. The only thing he knew for certain was that he was powerful.Powerful enough to end the world. "
― Mackenzi Lee , Loki: Where Mischief Lies
15 " Maybe things should just stay the way they are."I can tell he's trying to follow that unmappable logic, made all the more inscrutable by how dedicated I am to both my nonsense and how violently I just vomited it onto him. "
16 " 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 , The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Montague Siblings, #1.5)
17 " I am not weak," Loki said. "I am not your villain, and I am not your fool. I am a protector of my homeland." He thrust his hand in the air. "For Asgard! "
18 " Percy turns to me quickly, his eyes catching the light and reflecting a mischievous glint. I'm suddenly aware of my body in a way I wasn't a moment before, every twitch and blink, the way my shoulders sit inside this too-big coat, the bob of my throat as I swallow hard, every point of my silhouette that his gaze touches. Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn't take up more than its fair share of space inside a man. "
19 " My character was forged by independence and self-sufficiency in the face of loneliness, so I assumed the tools for survival were already in my kit, it was just a matter of learning to use them. But not only do I not have the tools, I have no plans and no supplies and seem to be working in a different medium entirely. "
20 " Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other. And, zounds, that is more than enough. "
