Between the near-kiss with Percy and now goddamned…

“Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“So long as you don’t go falling in love with me.” I don’t know why I say it. Call it battlements around my helpless…

— Mackenzi Lee

“have a history of reacting poorly when shouted at,”

— Mackenzi Lee

“brushes his mouth against the corner of mine, and Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, it takes every ounce of the not-inconsiderable restraint I’ve spent years…

— Mackenzi Lee

“Which is how I come to be running through the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, dressed only as Nature intended.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“Don’t drink too much.” “Could I get an absolute value on too much?”

— Mackenzi Lee

“Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn't take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“I wish I could be better for you." She looks over at me, and I duck my head, shame sinking its teeth in. "I'm…

— Mackenzi Lee

“It is impossible to explain how you can love someone so much that it’s difficult to be around him. And”

— Mackenzi Lee

“I do not want to know things, I want to understand things. I want to answer every question ever posed me. I want to…

— Mackenzi Lee

“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…

— Mackenzi Lee

“I let out a shy laugh, flit my eyes down to the floor, then back to him through my lashes. His neck goes a…

— Mackenzi Lee

“Yes, for education. An actual education, not finishing school—they’re going to squeeze me into corsets and bully me into silence.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“Can’t seal up a conversation with a casual Oh, by the way, could you perhaps not touch me the way you always have because…

— Mackenzi Lee

“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 enjoyable but…

— Mackenzi Lee