Mackenzi Lee Quotes

“I do not want to know things, I want to understand things. I want to answer every question ever posed me. I want to leave no room for anyone to doubt me.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Or perhaps that's just me assigning subterranean levels to every goddamn breath he takes.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

“Mythology is all shite anyway,' she says. 'It never has stories about people like us. I'd rather write my own legends, or be the story someone else looks to one day, build a strong foundation for those who follow us.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Walking into hell is always the easiest part. It’s coming back that takes work.”
“But she found a way. We always do, don’t we?”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“Can we not simply be people, each of us with cogs in our brains that turn slightly differently, and some that need oiling and alignment and upkeep more than others?”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“I understand what it's like to feel you'll never see the sun again. But you can learn to see in the dark. Or, if not, you trust that night doesn't last forever”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“...I had believed she believed it, and I believed that someday I might could, too, when I were grown enough, but now, kneeling on the hard floors of the boardinghouse with Eliza praying for all of us, I can't feel it. I feel propped up -- on Mam's faith, on Eliza's, on all the women in this room. But all I feel is hollowed out and empty, like someone's scraped their fingernails along the inside of my heart.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Radical Element

“But we are wolves, too. We are tearing up our own pack.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Radical Element

“And at the end of life, I don't know what's going to turn out to be the true thing, or which church will be the right one. But I don't think it really matters."
"Then what does?" I ask.
"Finding things that give you hope, and make you want to do good things for others.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Radical Element

“I would then write and rewrite and edit and rewrite and edit more and scrutinise the language until it no longer sounded like English and I had convinced myself was illiterate and no one had ever had the heart to tell me”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“It means the feeling that you’re not so much living your life as just trying to push through it won’t last forever. Someday you’ll be able to breathe”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

“You cannot live to fulfil or avoid what may come to pass”
― Mackenzi Lee, Loki: Where Mischief Lies

“I did something wrong and ruined him. I made him into a monster.”
“I doubt that very much. From what Mrs. Shelley said, you made a human being. And human beings, are, by nature, monstrous.”
― Mackenzi Lee, This Monstrous Thing