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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
by Mackenzi Lee

“”...it’s not as though I have many chances to learn medicine.”

“Of course you don’t,” she says, pushing herself up on her good elbow. “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.”

… “So if you can’t win the game, you have to cheat.”” (p. 296)

“”Do you ever wish time could be peeved backward?” I ask. “So you could know if the decisions you were making were the right ones?”

Sim snorts. “Are there right ones?”

“”Righter ones, then. Ones that won’t end in wasting your life and getting nowhere chasing something that might never be anything more than a mythology.”

“Mythology is all shite anyway,” she says. “It never has stories about people like us. I’d rather write my own legends. Or be the story someone else looks to someday. Build a strong foundation for those who follow us.”” (p. 429)

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