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Caroline is Currently Reading

Caroline is currently reading

Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)

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(page 394 of 640)
— Dec 29, 2025 05:14AM

Dec 05, 2025 05:57PM

“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.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“But what is the use of safety if it deprives you of everything else?”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“And I can understand why he might not, in fact, be alright. Why maybe none of us will be, because we have, all of us humans, decided what to save, and that is ourselves.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“The world is dangerous and we will not survive it. But there is this. Impermanent as it may be.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“She catches me and holds me so tenderly, and I know her. She is his mother, and she died so he could live. 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.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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