Arianna

“It took several thousand miles for me to begin believing that I am better than the worst things I’ve done. But I’m starting.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“I do not want simple. I do not want easy or small or uncomplicated. I want my life to be messy and ugly and wicked and wild, and I want to feel it all. All those things that women are made to believe they are strange for harboring in their hearts. And I want to surround myself with those same strange, wicked women who throw themselves open to all the wondrous things this world has to offer. Perhaps I’m spiraling into sentimental prose, but at this moment, I feel that I could swallow the world whole.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“And you should not be frightened of the darkness, but instead be sure that the most frightening thing in it is you.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy