K.A. Mielke > Quotes

“Pain flirts with the shape of her face, her eyes growing glassy and pink even though she’s the one ending things. She doesn’t do well with hurting people. She’s a vegetarian.
And this is an emotional slaughterhouse.”
― K.A. Mielke, Victory Lap

“The words don’t begin to explain what Rumour was to me. What she still is, even if it’s complicated and one-sided. You can’t scoop a single bucket out of the ocean and expect to understand its true depth. All the life thriving where the sunlight can’t reach.”
― K.A. Mielke, Losing Hit Points

“Obviously, Josh and Mel, like all old friends, have history, and history is rife with skirmishes and peace treaties and political coups. But I should have done more to get us to, I don’t know, a ceasefire or something. “Lay down your arms, don’t you know it’s Halloween!”
― K.A. Mielke, Victory Lap

“I never imagined how different first kisses could be until I had two in twenty-four hours.”
― K.A. Mielke, Victory Lap

“Hamish busies himself with the milkshake, grinning like a trickster god. I don’t trust him not to get me into trouble with frost giants in an attempt to be my wingman.”
― K.A. Mielke, Losing Hit Points

“The sign at the front of the lot seems to promise to REDEFINE, REVIVE, and RECAPTURE the magic of the Castle. The city wants to rebuild it as some sort of condo with a historical facade or something. It won’t be for us, the young, aimless, or homeless. But it will rise again in full glory, given a second chance at life.
Maybe we deserve that, too.”
― K.A. Mielke, Victory Lap

“I can practically feel my hit points plummeting. The one-heart-remaining video game alarm beeps in my mind. Seconds away from one final “Mamma mia” before Bowser burns the Mushroom Kingdom to the ground.”
― K.A. Mielke, Losing Hit Points

“Kids who, I hope, have a couple years left before they have to think about what they’ll be like at seventeen, eighteen, or nineteen, expected by parents and teachers and politicians and everyone else to have everything figured out—but on the authority figure of the day’s terms, not their own. If these kids are trans, queer, or people of colour, how many of their nights are already spent curled up and defeated on the couch?”
― K.A. Mielke, Victory Lap