Rat

“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

“He will always be waiting, I realize. He will never go away. And in time, I may find myself his first mate whether I want to or not, journeying to points exotic so that I might make another dive, and another, and another. And maybe one day I'll dive so deep that the Abyssal Serpent will catch me, and I'll never find my way back. No sense in denying that such things happen.

But it's not going to happen today—and there is a deep, abiding comfort in that. Deep enough to carry me through till tomorrow.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“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

“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