“is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.” — 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 my helpless… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
“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 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 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 man.” — Mackenzi Lee 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 in. "I'm… — Mackenzi Lee 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
“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 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 deflowering attempts… — Mackenzi Lee 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 goes a… — Mackenzi Lee 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 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 have because… — 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 enjoyable but… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
