Sunny

“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, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“I look down at his hand and laugh without quite knowing why. “You deserve some sort of reward for putting up with me.”
“You’re my reward.”
“Shit reward I am.”
“Why do you think everyone needs some sort of recompense for being around you?” he says,
his voice so gentle I almost start to cry.
...
He wraps an arm around me and I can feel the light touch of his hand on the back of my neck, fingers stroking my hair.
"You don't owe me sex, you don't owe me anything. I'm with you because I want to be, and if we're together it'll be because we both want to be. And we're going to London together because we want to, and it's going to be a disaster, but that's alright because we'll have each other, and there's no one on this goddamn planet I'd rather be with than you.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

“Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Come on." He snuffles his face into my shoulder, which I think he's trying to disguise as affection when really he's using me as a towel.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky