Milena McKay > Quotes

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“schadenfreude.”
― Milena McKay, Windburn

“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

“every touch both meticulous and superfluous.”
― Milena McKay, Windburn

“tête-à-tête”
― Milena McKay, Firewild

“I can’t say it, Rhiannon. You’ve perfected the art of martyrdom. And I will never be one more burden, one more responsibility, one more person with whom you stayed out of duty. I can’t be one more obligation. So I can’t say it.”
― Milena McKay, Windburn

“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

“tirade”
― Milena McKay, Firewild

“copacetic.”
― Milena McKay, Firewild

“disabused”
― Milena McKay, Firewild

“winsome”
― Milena McKay, Windburn

“capricious.”
― 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

“gauche”
― Milena McKay, Windburn

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

“avarice”
― Milena McKay, Firewild

“Pettiness wasn’t something she often gave in to. It was bad for business. It was bad for relationships. It was bad… Hell, it was supremely satisfying.”
― Milena McKay, Firewild

“so all that engagement from her? It’s real. She genuinely likes people and connects with them honestly. I am quite envious that it comes so easily to her. Connecting. All the talking to people with no self-serving reason to sell them something or win their votes.”
― Milena McKay, Firewild