" We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved. “May I kiss you?” I ask. “Abso-bloody-lutely you may,” he says. And so I do. "

― Mackenzi Lee , The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)