Victoria

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

“It is really fucking sad that it should take loss to know the precise quality of love.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“But I also think of how my husband taught me something else, something so deeply wrong I am stunned that I ever believed it: that in the face of world's end love should shrink.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

“I cannot, in this moment, fathom the men who came here on their boats to kill these creatures. I can’t comprehend what could allow you to do that, what could drive you to it. They do not seem like they could belong to the same species, but maybe it is the animal in me that feels the love, the human that can detach from it.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore