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“Anything can be a compliment if you take it as one.”
― 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

“Kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours.
But this is a kiss for the ages.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“Another storybook hero to swoop in and rescue a girl from a dragon or a monster or herself - they're all the same. A woman must be protected, must be sheltered, must be kept from the winds that would batter her into the earth. But 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