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“Terence McKenna once famously said that science asks “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” That miracle is the instantaneous arrival of all the laws of nature and all the matter and energy in the universe, appearing out of nowhere at the moment of the Big Bang, before going on to expand in uneven and unexplained ways.”
― Gordon White, Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments

“But, what if?
I needed release. I needed Ben inside of me. Right. Now.
Time to take charge, in a different way than I’d done before.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “You asked. I thought it better to get it out in the open.”
I put my glass down on the table. I moved closer to him, taking one of his rough hands in mine. I reached out and touched his face with my other hand.
“It’s okay, baby.” I said softly, “I did ask. It’s okay.”
I reached my hands down to his belt buckle and started undoing it.
“Liv, what …”
“Shhh. I know how to fix this. Just be quiet and let me do this.”
― Andrea McKenna, Secrets Bold, Secrets Told

“I told the barman to pour me another. He looked at Georgette, who shrugged, then poured. I tossed that one back just as quick as the last one.
“Look,” said Georgette, “Getting drunk doesn’t solve anything here.”
“On the contrary,” I said, being contrary, “It solves me being sober.”
“So you hit on him and he walked away. It’s not like that’s never happened before. And when I say hit on that was like a mortar round being fired more than anything else..”
“Yes, but I didn’t mean to hit on him. I mean, I did, but I didn’t. I really like him.”
“Oh, I think it’s safe to say at this point we’re aware that you like him,” said Georgette before sipping on her cocktail.
“Like really, really like,” I said.
She furrowed her eyebrows. “What, are you thirteen now?”
I told the barman to pour again. He didn’t even look to Georgette this time.
“Maybe. I feel like I’m thirteen. All hot and wet down below and not knowing what to do about it”. If the barman was listening in, he wasn’t showing it.
‘It seems you had a different childhood from me. Also, you’re very drunk.”
“I should go and speak to him about this, right now.”
― Andrea McKenna, Ground High Club

“The cost of sanity in the society is a certain level of alienation.” Terence McKenna”
― Ili Mais, Bwanana Chaos: A Novel

“As Katie released his arm, his flesh burned beneath her shy touch. Joe saw embarrassment over the kiss clearly written across her features. “No harm, no foul,” he told her a little more gruffly than he’d intended. Why the hell was his heart wishing Katie had wanted to kiss him because she was drawn to him? Joe knew that path led to a different kind of hell. Another part of him was relieved. Still, just thinking of Katie having a relationship with the vet bothered him a lot more than it should.”
― Lindsay McKenna, The Defender

“So you’re falling for her?” Hager said on the phone.
Joe paced his living room, watching the sun sinking behind the mountains. “Yes. It wasn’t intentional. I don’t know when it happened.”
― Lindsay McKenna, The Defender

“I don’t consider our talk yesterday as ‘dumping’ on me. We all have problems. And it’s nice to find a friend who is willing to listen, don’t you think?”
Sipping her coffee, Katie burned her tongue. Frowning, she absorbed Joe’s reasonable explanation. “You’re right, we’re all in a battle called life. And friends are indispensable.”
“And you’re looking pretty embattled right now. The least I can do is listen, Katie. Now—” and Joe gave her a slight smile—“I can’t guarantee I’ll have any answers for you on how to fix it, but I have a broad set of shoulders and a pair of good ears. And I’d like to be your friend, Katie.”
― Lindsay McKenna, The Defender

“If I still have a say, then you’re not leaving. Forget about going anywhere for the foreseeable future because I’m not gonna let you. I have no idea what our future holds, but all I know is that since you’ve been in my life, mine’s been a whole lot sweeter. And I’ve kinda gotten a taste for this sweet shit, and I like it. Quinn, please look at me.”
― Jamie Hollins, The Best Part of Me

“withdrew her poetry book and flipped to page fifty-two. When the bell rang she stuffed her book back inside. Everyone leapt from their desks to make for sixth period. Sadie Howard glanced back then did a double take when she saw Gray. They usually sat together. How was Gray going to explain that one? Just as she headed toward Sadie, Gray was bumped from behind. The force of the body against hers sent her pack flying out of her hands onto the ground. Okay, now she was pissed. “What’s your . . .” Gray whipped around to find herself face-to-face with Raj McKenna. “ . . . problem,” Gray finished, the”
― Nikki Jefford, Entangled

“repeatedly despite my feeble protestations. I would soon discover—perhaps the last person in America to do so—that this film was part of an entire ecosystem—books, clothes, jewelry, accessories—designed to support the launch of a new doll named, you guessed it, McKenna.”
― Andrew Essex, The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come

“first to arrive and the last to leave. I could just picture him as a teenage”
― Caitlin McKenna, No Such Luck

“Food animals also get antibiotics for “growth promotion,” a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming. Since the 1950s, when two pharma company scientists discovered that feeding chicks the waste products from drug manufacturing made them put on weight much faster, many U.S. farmers have been giving tiny doses of antibiotics to cattle, swine, and poultry.34”
― Maryn McKenna, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA

“Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain, dubbed USA300–0114. For a bacterium that usually was extraordinarily diverse, this was unheard-of.11”
― Maryn McKenna, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA

“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal living conditions, or poverty. Plus, the conditions inside jails and prisons—crowded, with little access to health care—exacerbate the spread of infection.”
― Maryn McKenna, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA

“Staph colonization is remarkable. There is no other disease-causing bacterium that is carried, without causing infection, by such a substantial slice of the population. The”
― Maryn McKenna, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA

“How interesting, she mused, that we pick up and repeat the qualities of those closest to us, like walking reflections, whether they be good for us or not.”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“Now God was going to run him over with his own truck. As he lifted his free arm to cross himself, it occurred to him that he was having an unusually ironic day.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Forgotten Coast: Books 1-4

“Larry looked over his shoulder and craned his neck to look up at Wyatt. “Well, it’s not a good candidate for reattachment, I can tell you that.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Riptide

“ranch.” Reese”
― Lindsay McKenna, Wind River Rancher