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The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

Mackenzi Lee

Top 10 Best Quotes

“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.”

“Then maybe I should have said it to you sooner--you needn't hide around us. I'm sorry you ever felt you had to. And that the world makes you feel as though you have to.”

“I look down at his hand and laugh without quite knowing why. “You deserve some sort of reward for putting up with me.” “You’re my reward.” “Shit reward I am.” “Why do you think everyone needs some sort of recompense for being around you?” he says, his voice so gentle I almost start to cry.”

“And maybe we can’t make it work. But maybe we’re tough and we’re stupid and we’re going to try anyway.”

“I want to be the only thing touching him. I want to be the only thing that ever touches him again. I will be envious of every shirt he ever wears, the cuffs of his coats, the trousers going soft with wear where they rub his inner thighs.”

“I wish I could travel backward in time and tell Monty of two years ago, lying on the lawn of his father's house with a black eye and a dawning realization he was falling in love with his best friend, that someday he'd be here.”

“Someday, you little twat, it's going to be more than that. The way we start doesn't have to be where we end up.”

“And it’s going to be a disaster. But that’s all right, because we’ll have each other, and there’s no one on this goddamn planet I’d rather be a disaster with than you.”

“Come on." He snuffles his face into my shoulder, which I think he's trying to disguise as affection when really he's using me as a towel.”

“Or perhaps that's just me assigning subterranean levels to every goddamn breath he takes.”

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