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BOOKS READ IN 2021 → The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee

i would teach my body to regrow my heart each time i gave it to him, over and over and over again. heart after heart after heart — every one of them his.

[cosmicbuckleys]

THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE

↳ mackenzi lee, 2017

we are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other.

[betsydobsons]

The Gentleman’s guide to Vice and Virtue

— “Oh no.”

Percy looks sideways at me. "Oh no what?"

I swallow. "I'd first like it to be noted that I am most certainly not a smuggler."

"Monty..." he says, my name sopping with dread.

"And," I continue overtop him, "I'd like you to both remember just how much you adore me and how dull and gloomy your lives would be without me in them."

"What did you do?

[addictedforbooksquad]

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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

[queernet]

@queernet pride month exchange — the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue for @pynchvinsky

i want to breathe him, feel him fill up my chest until my ribs strain and i break open like ripe fruit beneath a paring knife. i would be raw. i would freckle and blister in the sun. i would teach my body to regrow my heart everytime i gave it to him, over and over and over again. heart after heart after heart—every one of them his.

[osbornharry]

the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

“We're not courting trouble,” I say. “Flirting with it, at most.”

[henessy]

books (re)read in 2019 ✧ . * — the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

he raises his head. "you're nothing like your father, monty. for a start, you're far more decent than he is." i'm not sure how, after all the terrible things i've done, he can possibly mean that. "you might be the only person left on earth who thinks me decent." between us, i feel his knuckles brush mine. perhaps it's by chance, but it feels more like a question, and when i spread my fingers in answer, his hand slides into mine. "then everyone else doesn't know you.”

[ensigntilly]

books i read in 2018: the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue

we're not courting trouble. flirting with it, at most

[zoyanikolai]

and now percy has his arms around me and santorini and the sea are spread like a feast before us and there is sky all the way to the horizon.

and what a sky it is.

[moreaujeans]

BOOKS READ IN 2018: the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue

"in the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. it is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. it is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken."

"why are you telling me this?" i ask.

at last she looks at me. her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "because i want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival."

[onlyluversleft]

books read in 2018: the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue, mackenzi lee

[astreiants-archive]

flirting with it,

at most.

[lirapheus]

the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

“Did you know this year is not going to be a disaster?”

“I don’t believe it.”

“It is not going to be a disaster,” he repeats overtop of me, “because it is you and I and the Continent and not even Lockwood or your father can wreck it completely. I promise.”

[deanthomaas-blog]

THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE, mackenzi lee

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.

[love-wont-stop-this-bomb]

books i read in 2017 - The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee

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

[braveveth]

BOOKS READ IN 2017 ☆ the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee

“We’re not courting trouble,“ I say. “Flirting with it, at most.”