Lucía

“I lock doors. I ask questions. I set boundaries.”
― K.M. Szpara, Docile

“It wasn’t the first time I’d thought it—wouldn’t be the last either, though I didn’t know that then—but it was the first time I’d said it aloud, to anyone. It’s a strange thing, to want to die. Stranger still when you don’t feel you deserve to get away so easily.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“My head's higher than his, but we're close enough that I can see the freckles beneath his eyes. If I had to pick a favorite part of Percy's face - which would be impossible, really, but if held at gunpoint and forced to make a selection - it would be that small star-map across his skin. A part of him it feels as though no one else but me is ever close enough to see.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

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