Victoria

“Maybe I thought I’d discover whatever cruel thing drove me to leave people and places and everything, always. Or maybe I was just hoping the bird’s final migration would show me a place to belong”
― Charlotte McConaghy

“Mirror-touch synesthesia. My brain re-creates the sensory experiences of living creatures, of all people and even sometimes animals; if I see it I feel it, and for just a moment I am them, we are one and their pain or pleasure is my own.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“This is truer to my nature, surely, and maybe this is why it feels right to share. That I am of the leavers, the searchers, the wanderers. The ilk of those taken by the tides, instead of the steadfast, the true.”
― Charlotte McConaghy

“I stop being a woman, a human, an animal, whatever I was. I am fury dressed in flesh.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves