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“shouted. In”
― Todd Borg, Tahoe Killshot

“Back where I come from, chicken broke, he don’t go the doctor,” she said. “He go the soup pot.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash

“What do you want to show me?” “Well, right now I want to show you what it’s like to disembark from a truck, Maggie,” he said. “First tell me what we’re doing here,” she said. “You know you weigh less than a bag of squirrels, right?” he asked. “I can pick you up.” Maggie”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Wake

“There weren’t many true autumn days in Apalachicola, FL, and perhaps this was one reason that those days were the girl’s favorites.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Awash

“I’m not saying you can live with it, I’m saying”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“Go ’head mouth off to me some mo’. I buzz you with my buzzer.” Bennett lowered the paper to the table. “For the last time, it’s not a ‘buzzer.’ It’s not like one of those party tricks that gives somebody a little zap. It’s a Taser. It’s for self-defense, not for smacking someone you can’t reach, and not for frying the brains out of the neighbor’s dog.” Miss”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Riptide

“You keep trying to scare me with your voodoo and I’m gonna yank those tennis balls off your walker.” “Go on sass me, Mr. Benny. Sass me some more and I pass you a slap.” Amelia”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Low Tide

“When you start caring too much about what people think, you give them fractional ownership of your life. I don’t believe in fractional ownership.” Just”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Low Tide

“The loss of a mother is a singular and incomparable event.”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“going”
― Christina McKenna, The Godforsaken Daughter

“The material I teach presents no problems or challenges for me. That’s what being a master means, I suppose. I know this stuff front and back, in and out. I could teach it in my sleep and maybe I do. What is a challenge is how the information is received. Most or all of what I say fits into the receiving brain in a particular place, but there’s always something already there. It’s never an empty slot just waiting to be filled. Not only will every slot already be filled, but there will also be security—probably very tight security—guarding it. If I taught English Lit to eighth graders it would just be a matter of keeping it interesting so the connection stayed open while I uploaded new info, but this is different. No one comes here for their first exposure to the spiritual dimension. Everyone comes pre-educated and the education they arrive with is, for all practical purposes, worse than useless. That’s what I deal with and I’m not a master of cranial lock-picking, I just try hard to do my bit and know that success and failure is out of my hands.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“The water was tugging at her lower legs like a thousand insistent toddlers, and she knew that if one foot left the ground, they both would.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Landfall

“Bennett couldn’t help feeling, as he watched Sport walk away, that he had been burdened with more than his fair share of dumbasses.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Low Tide

“Arline had turned five and ten but a month before she and Carlich were married. He was auld enough to be her great-grandsire. Now, three years later, he was more than eighty, and there would be no more bairns for him. And none for her. “I’ll be resting soon enough,”
― Suzan Tisdale, McKenna's Honor

“The new knowledge that I wasn’t a natural-born cocksucker only stung the tiniest bit,”
― Cara McKenna, Curio

“His smile was like a door shut on a gale,”
― Cara McKenna, Curio

“Everything about him made my body ache the way it was designed to, and I felt normal and functional, boring adjectives that are nothing less than magical to me.”
― Cara McKenna, Curio

“I’m going”
― Christina McKenna, The Godforsaken Daughter

“the whole world felt like a loaded gun on a hair trigger.”
― Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles