Jocelyn

“If I hadn’t read these books, or studied what I did, I’d be a different person. It’s hard to question things, or expand the way you think, without being exposed to new information or different perspectives.”
― Emily R. Austin, Is This a Cry for Help?

“When I think about her,” he says, and I can hear his voice wavering, “when I see something amazing, I feel this rage. That she doesn’t get to see it.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“Perhaps it is not her, but my eyes, that are changed.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“I think my husband loved me as a vessel. [...] He never took the time to discover my body, he never explored it for what it could offer aside from the obvious, he never found in me, in my essence, a purpose other than to carry children, and when I admitted I couldn’t do this for him he turned away from me. He had no more use for my limbs or my skin, my muscles or tongue or fingertips. He couldn’t even see me anymore.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore