The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

by Mackenzi Lee

Thank God for friends who learn to speak to you in your own language rather than making you learn theirs.

You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.

Your beauty is not a tax you are required to pay to take up space in this world,

I realize that, in that single moment, like a flash of heat lightning over a bare moor, all three of us are in control of our own futures.

Everyone has heard stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them.

“Let me dream that there is something unquestionably pure in this world.”

I have never doubted the women who came before me or whether they deserved a seat at the table.

I do not need reasons to exist. I do not need to justify the space I take up in this world.

manned by a staff so aggressively English that, although we were clearly brought here against our will, tea is delivered to us

“I’m sorry I didn’t recognize you.” “Not sorry for the kick?” Monty asks. “No, not particularly,” she replies.

It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in.