Samantha

“[...] I am a wildflower and will stand against the gales. Rare and uncultivated, difficult to find, impossible to forget.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“This apartment isn't home for either of us, but we're home for each other, and that's what makes every small wall fall away so I only focus on him.”
― Adam Silvera, What If It's Us

“Every time you rolled your eyes and every little smart remark you made about how silly it was for girls to care about their looks. You refused to let me--or anyone!--like books and silks. Outdoors and cosmetics. You stopped taking me seriously when I stopped being the kind of woman you thought I had to be to be considered intelligent and strong. All those things you say make men take women less seriously--I don't think it's men; it's you. You're not better than any other woman because you like philosophy better than parties and don't give a fig about the company of gentlemen, or because you wear boots instead of heels and don't set your hair in curls.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“And thank God, because I don't 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.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy