emma goldman

“Here is the nature of life, we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“I envied and feared my mother’s ability to keep matters private, as every secret I tried to hold close ate away at me. She possessed a rare talent for keeping secrets, even from us. She did not need anyone. She could surprise you with how little she needed you. All those years she instructed me to save 10 percent of myself like she did, I never knew it meant she had also been keeping a part of herself from me too.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“To live for your children seems a normal thing, a respectable one; to live because of your children is something else.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, 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.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore