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Mackenzi Lee
“The world of academic research is strange!”
Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

Mackenzi Lee
“I want to sleep, I think. I want to stop struggling and give in. I want to let the water take me and never have to be in my own company again. I want to stop dragging myself around, stop feeling the weight of every thought like they're stones pulling me farther and farther under, the seafloor and surface both out of sight. I want to stop feeling weak just because some days, I can hardly carry my heavy heart.

...

I want to belong to myself. I want to stop feeling worthless and pointless and hopeless and less, less, less than everyone else around me. I want to live, not just survive, and fill myself up with all the people who have loved me into this moment and this man. I want to believe I am good and kind and clever and worthy with as much conviction as I have believed the opposites. I want to stop picking at life like it's a meal I don't want to eat, because I want to. I want to taste it all. I want life to be a feast, even if I have to eat it raw and bloody and burned some days. I will pick bones from my teeth. I will let the juice drip down my chin.

...

I want to sleep, I think as the sea rocks me, my name on its breath and my body suspended in its gentle embrace.

But what I say is, "I want to wake up.”
Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

Mackenzi Lee
“Anyone who says they enjoy my writing is clearly either lying or has terrible taste.”
Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks

Mackenzi Lee
“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

Mackenzi Lee
“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

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