Mackenzi Lee

“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…

— 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…

— Mackenzi Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Perhaps fashion is just a reinforcement of a lady’s chastity, in hopes that the interested party may lose interest and abandon any…

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

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

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

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“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…

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“is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like…

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“When he speaks again, his tone is nearer to reverence, a voice for saints and sacred places.”

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“A gentleman doesn’t tell.”

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“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

“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi . It is…

— Mackenzi Lee

“There´s nothing good about watching another man claim your ship because your skin is to dark to do it yourself.”

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“And then he leaves us to our own devices beside a store of gunpowder and flint and a cannon, thereby solidifying our…

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“Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other. And, zounds, that is more…

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“Lucky for me as well, or else we might never have met, and then what would have been the point of my…

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“The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are…

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