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

by Mackenzi Lee

It’s remarkable how being around books, even those you’ve never read, can have a calming effect, like walking into a crowded party and finding it full of people you know.

But one can only spend so long bookless in the company of another human before one feels compelled to make conversation.

I’ve spent my whole life learning to be my own everything

No woman on earth has been so delighted by alphabetization as I am in this moment.

like my fingers scraping a star, but that flared out and faded into the darkness so fast. Or perhaps it exploded in my face and then laughed at me.

In that moment, the sky feels closer than home.

Hope in any form feels fragile as spun sugar.

We’d move heaven and earth for you. Unless of course there is any actual heavy lifting involved, in which case, I’ll abstain, but don’t believe that in any way tarnishes the sentiment.”

nothing is so hard to find as something that no one has yet found.

“But there are always consequences. Even in standing still. And I’m tired of stillness.”

It isn’t what I wanted. But I don’t care. It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in.