“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.” — Mackenzi Lee First sight 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
“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
“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´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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“ Percy , I could say, I think you are the most beautiful creature on God's green earth and I would very… — Mackenzi Lee Beautiful creature 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
“It’s a Venetian name—Baseggio. A patronymic from a Venetian diminutive of the surname Basile. Perhaps you might begin your search there.” “A… — Mackenzi Lee 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
