Mackenzi Lee Quotes

#1. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.

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#2. You're either good, or you're clever.

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#3. Just thinking about all that blood." I nearly shudder. "Doesn't it make you a bit squeamish?"
"Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood," she replies, and Percy and I go fantastically red in unison.

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#4. ...you made a human being. And humans are, by nature, monstrous.

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#5. So long as you don't go falling in love with me." I don't know why I say it. Call it battlements around my helpless heart. Percy looks away from me fast, shoulders curling up. It almost looks like a flinch. But then he says, "I'll try my best." He

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#6. Not all monsters do monstrous things.

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#7. The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared moments.

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#8. We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most.

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#9. It's beginning to feel like he's shuffling his way through the seven deadly sins, in ascending order of my favourites.

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#10. God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.

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#11. I swear, you would play the coquette with a well-upholstered sofa."
"First, I would not. And second, how handsome is this sofa?

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#12. We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.

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#13. Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.

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#14. You took my life and Oliver's life and made them into this book. You made us into monsters, both of us.

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