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

by Mackenzi Lee

I have lived most of my life as a devotee of the philosophy that a man should not see two sevens in one day,

Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn’t take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.

It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you. Doubt will knock you from the sky every time.

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.