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“the day. His ma’s in the hospital, ye see…skidded on a mat when she was gettin’ her hair done in Hilda Cahoon’s hair saloon and broke her hip. Hilda had tae get the amb’lance, ’cos she couldn’t get herself up.” “Well, I’m sorry to hear that, but—” “Ye could try McMurty in the town but he’d charge ye an arm and a leg, ’cos he’s got bigger overheads than me. He’d do a quicker job for ye, right enuff, but I’d put money on it that it wouldn’t be as good a job as I’d do. I take me time, ye see, on account of havin’ a bit more of it on me hands out here, not bein’ in the town, like.” “Look, I’ll tell you what: I’ll just—” “They’re queuing up for McMurty in the town but that’s only ’cos he’s in the town and not out here in the cawntry like me…I couldn’t guarantee that ye wouldn’t have a wait on yer hands there, too. He could say he’d have it for yeh this evenin’, then ye could go back this evenin’ and he’d tell ye a different story altogether. He’s like that, ye see. And at the end of the day he’d charge ye more, ’cos as I say, he’s got bigger overheads than me…” Bessie realized it was pointless trying to interrupt. She was put in mind of her old refrigerator. It, too, had a habit of droning on in similar fashion. A swift kick in the right spot usually sorted it out. However, in this case such a tactic might prove highly inadvisable. She’d simply have to endure it. Let the mechanic say his piece. He’d peter out eventually. “…but it’s a free cawntry and it’s up tae you. As I say, I’ll do it for ye as soon as Willie-Tom opens the morra…couldn’t say fairer than that. I would of done it for ye today if Willie-Tom’s mother hadn’t skidded on that mat. But a body never knows from one day till the next what’s gonna happen. So it’s up tae you what ye want tae do.” “Look, I’ll just risk it then,” the widow said, not”
― Christina McKenna, The Disenchanted Widow

“Cassy walked up to Taylor and hugged her. “I’m really sorry about Tara. We’ll find her.” Taylor wiped her eyes. “Thank you.” Cassy looked into her eyes. “I mean it.” “I know you do.” “Where’s Corbin?” I asked Nichelle. “He went back to the hotel.” “Probably for the best,” I said. “He figured it would be.” Quentin, McKenna, and Tessa arrived a few minutes after us. No one spoke much. The sadness on their faces said it all. I texted my father. We’re here Almost immediately the loud buzz of an electronic lock echoed through the lobby, followed by a sharp metallic click, unlocking the glass door that opened to the elevators. I held the door while everyone walked inside. All ten of us crowded into one elevator. I pushed the button for the twelfth floor. My father and mother and the Ridleys were waiting for us as the door opened. Julie was crying. The two men wore grave expressions. Julie hugged Taylor as she got out of the elevator. “I’m so sorry, honey.” Taylor cried into her mother’s shoulder. My father said, “Let’s meet in the conference room.” We followed my dad down the hall to the glass double doors of a large conference room. He opened both doors, then gestured for us to enter. “Please, everyone, take a seat.” We sat down in the black leather seats that surrounded the polished mahogany table. The setting lent a stark formality to the gathering. Taylor and her mother were the last to enter. Even though I had kept a seat for Taylor, she sat down at the opposite end of the table next to her mother. After everyone was seated, my father said, “I understand that you’ve all been briefed on Jack and Grace. I can answer more questions about that later, but right now Tara’s abduction is our most time-sensitive issue.” He looked around the table. “Just to be clear, our first priority is to make sure that we don’t lose anyone else.” “I’ve already told everyone to stay in pairs,” I said.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Parasite

“Every question has an answer and you already know how to find it, but it’s up to you to do the work”
― Jed McKenna, Jed Talks #3: The Tao of the Large-Breasted Goddess with the Shapely Behind

“She knew about the church: how they said that the people of Ireland couldn’t be trusted with cartwheels, nor could they be trusted with knickers, nor could they be trusted with condoms (illegal until the eighties). They couldn’t be trusted with speaking the word condom, understanding that a condom fitted over a penis, or hearing the word penis when muttered in passing by a doctor (let alone the word vagina.) They couldn’t be trusted with homosexuality (illegal until the nineties), or heterosexuality, if your definition of it allowed for the experience of pleasure at another person’s body, or your own. The people of Ireland weren’t to be trusted with bodies. They weren’t to acknowledge bodies. The existence of bodies was to be flat-out denied. As for bisexuality, that was unheard of at the time, but if it had been heard of, surely the people of Ireland could not have been trusted with that either. Crucially, the people of Ireland could not be trusted with pregnancy, with safe childbirth or safe childhood, and above all, they couldn’t be trusted with abortion (illegal until this year).”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“I was convinced that whoever put the stars in the sky and the constellations between them had known a love as freckled as mine.”
― McKenna Munden, Me and the Devil: Sebastian Sallow

“Spiritual Dissonance is what occurs where our inner world meets our outer world; where what we think is true butts up against what appears to be true; where internal belief collides with external reality. It’s the discomfort that occurs where self and not-self come into contact.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Warfare

“Theory of Everything (The Enlightened Perspective) - Dreamstate Trilogy Jed McKenna’s Notebook Jed Talks #1 and #2”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“The man of Tao remains unknown.
Perfect virtue produces nothing
No-Self is True-Self
And the greatest man is Nobody.” Chuang Tzu”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“For an instant he was nose to nose with McKenna and was about to strike him again. Neilsen was too into this, forgetting all about his bowler.”
― Ann Greyson, Cowgirls & Indians

“Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.”
― Terrence McKenna

“THE SUN FELT good on Cathy’s face.”
― McKenna, Lindsay, Danger Close

“padump”
― Todd Borg, Tahoe Ghost Boat

“Dear God, this was awful. She's been kidnapped by a repressed part of her subconscious, her body taken over by a wanton nympho with no dignity who was sexually aroused by bad behaviour.”
― Shannon McKenna

“The Gar Wood was a 1947 Ensign, its lines designed for cutting small chop at high speed, not for coping with deep-water swell. The boat teetered at the crest of the wave then tipped down the other side, nearly swamping.”
― Todd Borg, Tahoe Ghost Boat

“So, I just start yelling, but this big, fat lady just came over and picked me up, and that causes me to drop my basket of cookies for my grandmama, which I had been taking to her because she was sick-‘ ‘This sounds a bit too much like Little Red Riding Hood to me,’ interrupted Courtney. ‘You’re sure you’re not making this up, McKenna?”
― J.C. Buchanan, The Hidden Amethyst

“There are no coincidences with God,” she claimed. “Everything that comes into your life is filtered through His hand.”
― Linda J. White, Bloody Point

“Shut up, Carl”
― McKenna Grega

“Once again the Scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark, the plumb line steadies us and steers us clear of what is happening in the world and gives us a glimpse of history and politics, economics and daily experiences from God's point of view. Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight not found in other devotional materials.”
― Megan McKenna, The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

“through such experiences they understood that to be bound by another’s needs and wishes was perhaps, in essence, a far more fearful state than being on one’s own.”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man