The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)

by Mackenzi Lee

She has one of her amatory novels propped against a crystal jam pot, a serving fork wedged between the pages to hold it open.

Percy had avenged me when no one else would look me in the eyes.

how exquisitely easy friendship with Percy is, equal parts comfortable silence and never lacking things to say to each other.

I get a view of a good deal more of my sister’s legs than I ever wished to see.

Poor Monty, in love with your best friend.

They are not what I expected of pirates, nor really of tars at all. They’re not bloodthirsty, drunken rogues passing round-robins and black spots and ready to knock the man in charge on the back of the head with a belaying pin. Rather, they are a small, tight-knit crew, who trade jokes and stories and songs mostly in jack-tar lingo, and we become their strange, temporary crewmates, assigned small tasks with no irreparable consequences if bungled.

“What’s the use of temptations if we don’t yield to them?” “That’ll be chiseled upon your tombstone.”