“What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?” — Mackenzi Lee Temptation 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 Copy Share Image
“Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my… — Mackenzi Lee Life Copy Share Image
“I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from… — Mackenzi Lee Book Copy Share Image
“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.” — Mackenzi Lee Book Copy Share Image
“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.” — Mackenzi Lee Astronomy Copy Share Image
“is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like… — Mackenzi Lee Courage Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry,” she says. “What for?” “You’ve had a rough go.” “Everyone has a rough go. I’ve had it far easier than… — Mackenzi Lee Feelings Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fashion is just a reinforcement of a lady’s chastity, in hopes that the interested party may lose interest and abandon any… — Mackenzi Lee Chastity Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the first time I’d thought it—wouldn’t be the last either, though I didn’t know that then—but it was the first… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“So long as you don’t go falling in love with me.” I don’t know why I say it. Call it battlements around… — Mackenzi Lee Falling in love 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
“I thought we told each other everything." "This isn't about us." "It's always going to be about us" "No, you want this… — Mackenzi Lee Emotional Copy Share Image
“Do you know how horrid it feels to watch my brother get tossed out of the best boarding school of England, then… — Mackenzi Lee Bad luck Copy Share Image
“I wish I could be better for you." She looks over at me, and I duck my head, shame sinking its teeth… — Mackenzi Lee Embarrassed Copy Share Image
“My head's higher than his, but we're close enough that I can see the freckles beneath his eyes. If I had to… — Mackenzi Lee Freckles Copy Share Image
“Can’t seal up a conversation with a casual Oh, by the way, could you perhaps not touch me the way you always… — Mackenzi Lee Communication Copy Share Image
“it’s hard not to see. You’re the kind of pair that makes everyone around them feel as though they’re missing out on… — Mackenzi Lee Joke Copy Share Image
“It’s beginning to feel like he’s shuffling his way through the seven deadly sins, in ascending order of my favorites.” — Mackenzi Lee Deadly sins Copy Share Image
“Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other. And, zounds, that is more… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“The important bit was that if you go behind my back, I swear to God, I’ll skin you alive—” “I won’t—” “—murder… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Ugh. Feelings.” I take a long drink, then pass her the bottle. She has another delicate sip. “You were right—it’s less horrid… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“It’s a strange feeling, realizing that other people you don’t know have their own full lives that don’t touch yours. I” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“And I begin to cry. Though cry seems far too gentle a word. I begin to abso-bloody-lutely sob. Felicity is kind enough… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“He seems like he wants to touch me, but we've lost any sense of how men who haven't kissed each other do… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn't take up more than its fair share of space inside a… — Mackenzi Lee Fair share Copy Share Image
“And then Jesus says, 'Well, watch this' - " "Really? Well, watch this?" "That's biblical language." "If your Bible is written by… — Mackenzi Lee Bible Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me then that perhaps getting my little sister drunk and explaining why I screw boys is not the most… — Mackenzi Lee Little sister Copy Share Image
“It’s hard for me to think of anything other than what he might be thinking, and what this night means to him,… — Mackenzi Lee Thinking Copy Share Image
“I let out a shy laugh, flit my eyes down to the floor, then back to him through my lashes. His neck… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“In their poor imitation of French fashion, they look like pastries in a bakery window at the end of the day, trying… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Percy leans in suddenly, and I think he’s going to tell me something in confidence, but instead he touches his lips to… — Mackenzi Lee Confidence Copy Share Image
“I do not want to know things, I want to understand things. I want to answer every question ever posed me. I… — Mackenzi Lee Asexuality Copy Share Image
“Yes, for education. An actual education, not finishing school—they’re going to squeeze me into corsets and bully me into silence.” — Mackenzi Lee Bully Copy Share Image
“Ladies haven’t the luxury of being squeamish about blood,” she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Has that been your leg all this while?” “What?” He unhooks his foot from around my calf. “I thought it was the… — Mackenzi Lee Dear lord Copy Share Image
“There’s really nothing to do but pretend I’m fully clothed and in control of the situation. So I walk up to Percy… — Mackenzi Lee Clothed Copy Share Image
“have lost years of my life loving him from afar and I’ll be damned if I’m robbed of him as soon as… — Mackenzi Lee Life Copy Share Image
“I have lived most of my life as a devotee of the philosophy that a man should not see two sevens in… — Mackenzi Lee Life Copy Share Image
“Between the near-kiss with Percy and now goddamned pirates, my heart is certainly being put through its paces today.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
