“Well, one is illegal. And a sin. And the other is also a sin, if you aren’t married to her.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“When he speaks again, his tone is nearer to reverence, a voice for saints and sacred places.” — Mackenzi Lee Reverence Copy Share Image
“If the Good Lord didn't want men to play with themselves, we'd have hooks for hands.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a waste of time. Fortune favors the flirtatious.” — Mackenzi Lee Flirtatious Copy Share Image
“I have become a veritable scholar in seemingly innocent ploys to get his skin against mine.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“There are bodies buried beneath the flagstones of my parents' estate, and some graves never green.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Blackmail is aggravating in normal circumstances, but far worse when it's coming from a younger sister.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Which is how I come to be running through the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, dressed only as Nature intended.” — Mackenzi Lee Gardening Copy Share Image
“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… — Mackenzi Lee Asylum Copy Share Image
“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.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“There´s nothing good about watching another man claim your ship because your skin is to dark to do it yourself.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are… — Mackenzi Lee Astronomy Copy Share Image
“And then he leaves us to our own devices beside a store of gunpowder and flint and a cannon, thereby solidifying our… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Epilepsy,” he repeats, then covers his face with his hands so it comes out muffled when he says it again. “I have… — Mackenzi Lee Epilepsy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing good about watching another man claim your ship because your skin is too dark to do it yourself," he… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with lacquer and flakes of gold, whole as we… — Mackenzi Lee Broken things Copy Share Image
“When I look back on it now, I realize that must have been the first time, in all the while we’d known… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Are you going to be sick?” I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting… — Mackenzi Lee Prisoner Copy Share Image
“A small shift in the gravity between us and suddenly all my stars are out of alignment, planets knocked from their orbits,… — Mackenzi Lee Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Why didn’t you tell me?” He clenches his hands into fists around the blankets, face set, then says, “Fine, you want to… — Mackenzi Lee Asylum Copy Share Image
“Though I would hang on because I’d likely wash up in France, and from what I remember from the summer my family… — Mackenzi Lee Family Copy Share Image
“They likely would not have been able to be open about it. But the optimist in me likes to believe that the… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“What do you want me to say? Yes, I’m ill. I’m an epileptic—that’s my lot. It isn’t easy and it isn’t very… — Mackenzi Lee Life Copy Share Image
“The truth is that Percy has always been important to me, long before I fell so hard for him there was an… — Mackenzi Lee Best friend Copy Share Image
“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi . It is… — Mackenzi Lee Gold and silver Copy Share Image
“I love you, but I don’t know how to help you. I still don’t! I’m an emotional delinquent and I say wrong… — Mackenzi Lee Percy Copy Share Image
“He raises his head. "You're nothing like your father, Monty. For a start, you're far more decent than he is." I'm not… — Mackenzi Lee Father Copy Share Image
“The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for… — Mackenzi Lee Love Copy Share Image
“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.” — Mackenzi Lee First sight Copy Share Image
“Dear. Lord. Fortune has well and truly vomited down my front in the form of Mr. Lockwood. As” — Mackenzi Lee Dear lord Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to explain how you can love someone so much that it’s difficult to be around him. And” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?” — Mackenzi Lee Temptation Copy Share Image
“clean up, sober up, stop letting lads climb in through your bedroom window at night or else—” — Mackenzi Lee Sober Copy Share Image
