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161 " Dear. Lord. Fortune has well and truly vomited down my front in the form of Mr. Lockwood. As "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
162 " Of course, the moment I get around other females my own age, I end up socializing with the dog. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
163 " The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other’s mouth. "
164 " but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. "
165 " Perhaps fashion is just a reinforcement of a lady’s chastity, in hopes that the interested party may lose interest and abandon any deflowering attempts simply for all the clothing in the way. "
166 " Between the near-kiss with Percy and now goddamned pirates, my heart is certainly being put through its paces today. "
167 " It’s hard for me to think of anything other than what he might be thinking, and what this night means to him, and if it’s the same as for me. "
168 " Anything can be a compliment if you take it as one. "
169 " The important bit was that if you go behind my back, I swear to God, I’ll skin you alive—” “I won’t—” “—murder you, then alchemically raise you from the dead so I can murder you again— "
170 " Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my life? My "
171 " And it’s going to be a disaster. But that’s all right, because we’ll have each other, and there’s no one on this goddamn planet I’d rather be a disaster with than you. "
― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Montague Siblings, #1.5)
172 " 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. "
173 " Loki didn't know what to say. He knew what it was to be cast out and unwanted and taunted for the fabric you were stitched from. To want to find strength and pride in the things that made you you in spite of the world telling you that you should hide them. It was a particular kind of dissonance that was hard to understand until your ears rang with it. "
― Mackenzi Lee , Loki: Where Mischief Lies
174 " Monty's the thief,' Felicity says.'No, I am the second thief. Which I think cancels out my thievery. "
175 " Be a little less honest and a little more tactful. "
176 " All those thing 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 the world has to offer. "
177 " Perspective is a goddamn son of a bitch. "
178 " He could be the witch. He could be the villain. He could be the trickster, the schemer, the self-serving God of Chaos, prove the mythology books right. Prove them all right in what they had all thought, that he was rotten from the start. He would serve no man but himself, no heart but his own. That would be his choice. He could be the witch. Be the witch, and know everything. "
179 " I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. "
180 " Not all monsters do monstrous things. "
― Mackenzi Lee , This Monstrous Thing