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

by Mackenzi Lee

Though I suppose you Montagues are first-rate at not noticing when someone is smitten with you.”

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

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.

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

“You’re trying to play a game designed by men. You’ll never win, because the deck is stacked and marked, and also you’ve been blindfolded and set on fire. You can work hard and believe in yourself and be the smartest person in the room and you’ll still get beat by the boys who haven’t two cents to rub together.”

“That’s the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”

Everyone has heard stories of women like us—cautionary tales, morality plays, warnings of what will befall you if you are a girl too wild for the world, a girl who asks too many questions or wants too much. If you set off into the world alone. Everyone has heard stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them.

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