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“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“It isn’t fair to be the kind of creature who is able to love but unable to stay.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.”
― Once There Were Wolves
― Once There Were Wolves
“A life's impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“Maybe we will drown or burn or starve one day, but until then we get to choose if we’ll add to that destruction or if we will care for each other.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“We are, all of us, given such a brief moment of time together, it hardly seems fair. But it’s precious, and maybe it’s enough, and maybe it’s right that our bodies dissolve into the earth, giving our energy back to it, feeding the little creatures in the ground and giving nutrients to the soil, and maybe it’s right that our consciousness rests. The thought is peaceful.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“I understand it so simply now, it is a love that lives in the body but unlike the body it never dissolves. It lasts forever.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“But the dandelion—this single flower that has given nourishment to countless other living creatures—is considered a weed.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“He said our lives mean nothing except as a cycle of regeneration, that we are incomprehensibly brief sparks, just as the animals are, that we are no more important than they are, no more worthy of life than any living creature. That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“But there won’t be any more journeys after this one, no more oceans explored. And maybe that’s why I am filled with calm. My life has been a migration without a destination, and that in itself is senseless. I leave for no reason, just to be moving, and it breaks my heart a thousand times, a million.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“I can't move to pull on my clothes except that somehow I do, and I can't stand on two feet except that somehow I do, and I can't walk, there's no way I can walk, except I do. I take step after step after step after step.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“To live for your children seems a normal thing, a respectable one; to live because of your children is something else.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“I never worked out how to be relied upon and also free.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.”
― Once There Were Wolves
― Once There Were Wolves
“It’s impossible to control someone else’s capacity for forgiveness.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“You must know monsters well, wolf girl.”
“I’ve never met one in the wild. They don’t live there.”
― Once There Were Wolves
“I’ve never met one in the wild. They don’t live there.”
― Once There Were Wolves
“If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you're blind...We do that. We are the people killers, the children killers. We're the monsters.”
― Once There Were Wolves
― Once There Were Wolves
“What a mystery it was to me then: how she knew what temperature to keep the room overnight and what to dress the babies in so they’d be warm but not overly so, how she knew when to give paracetamol for a fever, and what times they needed to sleep depending on how old they were, and when to bring them into our beds for cuddles and when to be strict about sleep skills, and what the fuck sleep skills are, and not to use soap in their baths, and to try olive oil for the cradle cap, and which foods were safe for starting solids, and exactly how to serve them. How did she know all of this? It must have been built in, that’s what I thought. When Orly came along and it was just me, I realized how she’d known. She’d fucking learned. She’d had to, because somebody had to keep the babies alive, and so she bloody well got on with it.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“All creatures know love, Dad used to say. All creatures.”
― Once There Were Wolves
― Once There Were Wolves
“The world he describes, empty of wild creatures and places, overrun instead by people and their agriculture, is a dying world”
― Once There Were Wolves
― Once There Were Wolves
“I close my eyes, drinking it all in, knowing it is a place in time that I will never forget. The world is dangerous and we will not survive it. But there is this. Impermanent as it may be.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“How lonely it will be here, when it's just us.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“I think I finally understand your words. It’s just a body. They hold on or they don’t. You’re right, it’s nothing to be frightened of. Mine will become the salt of this water. And every time you swim it will be me upon your skin.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“Maybe that's what being a parent is. Expanding to be more. Asking of yourself more, for them.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“There is such peril in loving things at all, and he feels sort of proud, in fact, that he just keeps on doing it.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“Here is the nature of life, we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“Saving specific animals purely on the basis of what they offer humanity may be practical, but wasn’t this attitude the problem to begin with? Our overwhelming, annihilating selfishness?”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“I think there is meaning, and it lives in nurturing, in making life sweeter for ourselves, and for those around us.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
