Mackenzi Lee Quotes & Sayings

God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. — Mackenzi Lee

We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most. — Mackenzi Lee

You took my life and Oliver's life and made them into this book. You made us into monsters, both of us. — Mackenzi Lee

The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other's mouth.
A long, slow slide, then a sudden impact. — 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 heart. Percy looks away from me fast, shoulders curling up. It almost looks like a flinch. But then he says, "I'll try my best." He — Mackenzi Lee

Not all monsters do monstrous things. — Mackenzi Lee

You're either good, or you're clever. — Mackenzi Lee

Oh no."
Percy looks sideways at me. "Oh no what?"
I swallow. "I'd first like it to be noted that I am most certainly not a smuggler."
"Monty..." he says, my name sopping with dread.
"And," I continue overtop him, "I'd like you to both remember just how much you adore me and how dull and gloomy your lives would be without me in them."
"What did you do? — Mackenzi Lee

The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared moments. — Mackenzi Lee

We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved. — Mackenzi Lee

It's beginning to feel like he's shuffling his way through the seven deadly sins, in ascending order of my favourites. — Mackenzi Lee

We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end. — Mackenzi Lee

Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free. — Mackenzi Lee

Just thinking about all that blood." I nearly shudder. "Doesn't it make you a bit squeamish?"
"Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood," she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison. — Mackenzi Lee

...you made a human being. And humans are, by nature, monstrous. — Mackenzi Lee

I swear, you would play the coquette with a well-upholstered sofa."
"First, I would not. And second, how handsome is this sofa? — Mackenzi Lee