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Caroline is currently reading

Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)

by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 24, 2026 03:38PM

“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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“Loving a place is the same as having a child. They are both too much an act of hope, of defiance. And those are a fool’s weapons.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“It was a miracle, not that life had come into existence, but that it endured.”
― Eowyn Ivey, Black Woods, Blue Sky

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

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“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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