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181 " Which is how I come to be running through the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, dressed only as Nature intended. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
182 " 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. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Montague Siblings, #1.5)
183 " I want to stop picking at life like it's a meal I don't want to eat, because I want to. I want to taste it all. I want life to be a feast, even if I have to eat it raw and bloody and burned some days. I will pick bones from my teeth. I will let the juice drip down my chin. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
184 " 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. "
185 " You can’t, I am thinking. You can’t be ill because I need you and you can’t go away to die in some asylum because what am I supposed to do without you? "
186 " 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. "
187 " Somehow nothing's changed, and everything has. "
188 " Girls like me are meant to have books instead of friends. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
189 " Prickly?" I say. "I'm not prickly.""Felicity Montague, you are a cactus. "
190 " Some men seem to think that if a lady behaves in a way that they consider unbecoming of her sex, they are justified in speaking in a way that is unbecoming of theirs. "
191 " Who says I want a place in the court of a king who hits himself in the face with his own hammer?""That was one time!""And yet it's burnt in our hearts forever. "
― Mackenzi Lee , Loki: Where Mischief Lies
192 " You’ve had a rough go.' 'Everyone has a rough go. I’ve had it far easier than most people.' 'Maybe. But that doesn’t mean your feelings matter less. "
193 " I think I want a house of my own," I start, the words a discovery as they leave my mouth. "Something small, so I don't have much housework, but enough room for a proper library. I want a lot of books. And I wouldn't mind a good old dog to walk with me. And a bakery I go to every morning where they know my name.""And you don't want anyone with you?" Sim asks, raising her head. "No family?""I want friends," I say. "Good friends, that make up a different kind of family. "
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. "
195 " There´s nothing good about watching another man claim your ship because your skin is to dark to do it yourself. "
196 " 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. "
197 " I was born a girl but too stubborn to accept the lot that came with my sex. "
198 " Maybe I was panicking. Maybe I am. Because give it a year. Or ten years. Or a life. Because I just don’t think I can do it, Perce. I don’t think I’m enough for you. And I don’t want you to do this big thing—give me this big part of yourself—just to turn around and realize you made a mistake. "
199 " The man gave him an appraising up and down. "You look like a witch."Loki looked down at himself. He'd forgone the glamoured clothes he'd been wearing and purchased an actual suit on the way here to save energy — all black, complete with a tiny dark pin through the tie and the highest-heeled boots that Paxton's had for men — disappointingly quite low. "Thank you.""Witches are girls.""Does that make it less of a compliment? "
200 " I do not 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. All those things that women are made to believe they are strange for harboring in their hearts. And I want to surround myself with those same strange, wicked women who throw themselves open to all the wondrous things this world has to offer. Perhaps I’m spiraling into sentimental prose, but at this moment, I feel that I could swallow the world whole. "