Milena McKay > Quotes

“I love you and so nothing can touch you, Neve. And if you love me, it makes me immortal. The universe will move and make space for us, for this love. Believe me.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“Some people are simply adopted by others, and they’re friends now and there’s nothing to be done about that.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“Ask me again. Please.” Helena shook her head indulgently, but her voice was sad when she asked. “What do you call Audrey, Neve?” Neve closed her eyes and murmured the truth.  “My everything.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“This pattern that I have. Of reaching for comfort in the well-known pain because the fear of change is greater.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“We have to choose someone again and again and again. Is it fate? Or do we choose because that is the only person who has ever seen us, known us, gave us the true freedom of being loved as we are?”
― Milena McKay

“My name is Magdalene Nox. I am the new Headmistress of Three Dragons. And you are all fired.”
― Milena McKay, The Headmistress

“I was lost, dear heart. I’d been lost since I was eight years old, and I was not willing to be found. Until somehow, against all odds, in came you, and you pulled at me and pushed me, until I opened up enough to let you in. I had to fight my demons to do that, and there were dark times in between, but there was no looking back for me. Once you were in my heart, I was found.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“I denied myself happiness, denied myself love and passion and devotion, out of fear of losing. Out of fear of being abandoned again.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“She realized that she’d never truly known the power of a kiss–not when just the merest touch of lips stopped reality, ended daylight, drawing her into an existence that should not be real and yet was the only palpable thing. The only thing she could feel. The only thing she wanted to feel.”
― Milena McKay, Magdalene Nox

“I am not thinking about her, and I can’t stop thinking that there are exactly twenty-one blocks between where I am and where she is.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“It’s the Leidensdruck concept. The literal translation is ‘the pressure of suffering’. What the concept suggests is that the suffering inherent in not acting must exceed the suffering one expects to experience if one acts. That the ‘Leidensdruck’, the pressure has to be high enough to become the impetus for moving forward, for change.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“Remember that the things that matter outweigh our attachments and our grievances.”
― Milena McKay, The Headmistress

“Koi no yokan… The age-old Japanese concept, the one that meant falling in love, not at first sight, but knowing it would come if only given a second glance.”
― Milena McKay, Magdalene Nox

“Or has that same heaven suddenly become more inclusive?”
― Milena McKay, Magdalene Nox

“Because some things cannot be locked up”
― Milena McKay, The Fairy Light Collection: Short Stories From McK-Universe

“Yes. We love them, and we want them to love us. Want ourselves to be good enough to be loved.”
― Milena McKay, These Thin Lines

“You are my hero, teach. Absolute legend! Way to go! Happy for you. From a nerd to a heroic romantic lead who melts the Ice Queen. That’s such a trip.”  Sam and Magdalene exchanged amused glances before Magdalene chuckled out loud.  “With Sam as your mentor, is it a surprise you, too, are a fan of lesbian romance?”
― Milena McKay, The Headmistress

“Barnaby’s whispered, “Lesbians, now watch them stay besties forever after having the most dramatic breakup in the history of breakups,” sounded particularly loud.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“You know who the demons are that people fear the most? The innocents they condemned to hell. And make no mistake, they all fear you.”
― Milena McKay, Magdalene Nox

“It’s a German word and a psychological term. The literal translation is ‘the pressure of suffering’, but as with all things German, nothing is quite that easy about understanding the phenomenon. What the concept suggests is that the suffering inherent in not acting must exceed the suffering one expects to experience if one acts. That the ‘Leidensdruck’, the pressure has to be high enough to become the impetus for moving forward, for change.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“I love you. Comic book references mixed with classic literature talk. I love you so much.”
― Milena McKay, These Thin Lines

“It will be an older woman at that. I’ll bet my last dollar. Hurricane Audrey Avens will do some damage, mark my words.”
― Milena McKay, Magdalene Nox

“I took the liberty of contacting the Boston Public Library, and it turns out they are fundraising again, wouldn’t you know it? They were more than ready to sell one of their two copies to me. This one having been restored ten years ago by one Samantha Anne Threadneedle, Boston College student. It says so right here on the insert of the dust jacket.”  What tears hadn’t spilled before were suddenly flowing freely down Sam’s cheeks. But this time Magdalene did not reach to wipe them away, simply watching Sam’s face and speaking softly.”
― Milena McKay, The Headmistress

“and you of all people know it all too well.” “Alright then”
― Milena McKay, Windburn

“Thirty years ago you threw a kid out of Dragons. You told everyone it was for her being illegitimate, and yet you had yourself a bastard just the same? How positively rich and white of you, Mr. Alden.”
― Milena McKay, The Headmistress

“She’d start with the most obvious fear. Was it grounded in internalized homophobia”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“Leidensdruck. It’s the Leidensdruck concept”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“Lils, with all due respect, you and Amanda are totally princesses, but you are so not my princesses.”  “Well, duh! Cause Hottie McHot—”  “That’s Headmistress McHot to you, Ms. Easterly.” Magdalene’s soft quiet voice held a note of amusement, but both Lily and Sam jumped about a foot in the air at the interruption.”
― Milena McKay, The Headmistress

“zealots. Religious fanatics. Joel Tullinger thinks he is some kind of second coming. I don’t know how that’s possible, since his wife has no idea what coming even means.”
― Milena McKay, Magdalene Nox

“The sheer helplessness to change something that seems to be entirely in your power”
― Milena McKay, Windburn