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141 " They likely would not have been able to be open about it. But the optimist in me likes to believe that the twenty-first century is not the first time in history that queer people have been able to live full romantic and sexual lives with the people they love. And if that makes me anachronistic, "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
142 " You're very clever.""I have my moments.""Many of them. You are made of moments. "
― Mackenzi Lee , Loki: Where Mischief Lies
143 " Maybe everyone has hunger like this - impossible, insatiable, but all-consuming in spite of it all. Maybe the desert dreams of spilling rivers, valleys of a view. Maybe that hunger will one day pass. But if it does, I will be left shelled and halved and hollowed. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
144 " When I look back on it now, I realize that must have been the first time, in all the while we’d known each other, it occurred to me that Percy might actually be rather handsome. Perspective is a goddamn son of a bitch. "
145 " Has that been your leg all this while?” “What?” He unhooks his foot from around my calf. “I thought it was the chair. Sorry about that. Dear Lord, why didn’t you say something?” Before "
146 " The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared seconds. It "
147 " From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice. "
148 " It is impossible to explain how you can love someone so much that it’s difficult to be around him. And "
149 " I want to be the only thing touching him. I want to be the only thing that ever touches him again. I will be envious of every shirt he ever wears, the cuffs of his coats, the trousers going soft with wear where they rub his inner thighs. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Montague Siblings, #1.5)
150 " There are many things that make this book fiction, but the roles women play within it are not. The women of the eighteenth century were met with opposition. They had to fight endlessly. Their work was silenced, their contributions ignored, and many of their stories are forgotten today.Nevertheless, they persisted. "
151 " And maybe we can’t make it work. But maybe we’re tough and we’re stupid and we’re going to try anyway. "
152 " You are a shield and spear to all the things you love. I'm glad to be among them. "
153 " 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. "
154 " have lost years of my life loving him from afar and I’ll be damned if I’m robbed of him as soon as we realize we’ve both been admiring each other from a distance all this while. "
155 " In the company of women like this - sharp-edged as raw diamonds but with soft hands and hearts, not strong in spite of anything but powerful because of everything - I feel invincible. "
156 " 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. "
157 " Theo looked away first, turning back to the tea-kettle. The firelight pocked and hollowed his face. 'Do you have a preference? Between men and women?''I feel equally comfortable as either.''No, I don't mean . . . not all of us can change our gender at will.''I don't change my gender. I exist as both.''You're not . . . That doesn't make sense.''It does to me. "
158 " Let me dream that there is something unquestionably pure in this world. "
159 " I wish I could travel backward in time and tell Monty of two years ago, lying on the lawn of his father's house with a black eye and a dawning realization he was falling in love with his best friend, that someday he'd be here. "
160 " Perhaps you could find something more accurate. You could call yourselves the Society where Hospitality is Ignored Totally. Or, for short— "