“It isn’t fair to be the kind of creature who is able to love but unable to stay.”
―
Charlotte McConaghy,
Migrations
“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“A life's impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“We are, all of us, given such a brief moment of time together, it hardly seems fair. But it’s precious, and maybe it’s enough, and maybe it’s right that our bodies dissolve into the earth, giving our energy back to it, feeding the little creatures in the ground and giving nutrients to the soil, and maybe it’s right that our consciousness rests. The thought is peaceful.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“But there won’t be any more journeys after this one, no more oceans explored. And maybe that’s why I am filled with calm. My life has been a migration without a destination, and that in itself is senseless. I leave for no reason, just to be moving, and it breaks my heart a thousand times, a million.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“I can't move to pull on my clothes except that somehow I do, and I can't stand on two feet except that somehow I do, and I can't walk, there's no way I can walk, except I do. I take step after step after step after step.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“The world he describes, empty of wild creatures and places, overrun instead by people and their agriculture, is a dying world” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“It’s impossible to control someone else’s capacity for forgiveness.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“All creatures know love, Dad used to say. All creatures.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“I never worked out how to be relied upon and also free.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“He said our lives mean nothing except as a cycle of regeneration, that we are incomprehensibly brief sparks, just as the animals are, that we are no more important than they are, no more worthy of life than any living creature. That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“You must know monsters well, wolf girl.”“I’ve never met one in the wild. They don’t live there.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you're blind...We do that. We are the people killers, the children killers. We're the monsters.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“How lonely it will be here, when it's just us.” ― Charlotte McConaghy , Migrations
“I think it’s civilization makes us violent. We infect each other.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“this is the thing, isn’t it? This is the fear they live with now. The children in us long for monsters to take forms we understand. They want to fear the wolves because they don’t want to fear each other.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“A life's impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“We are, all of us, given such a brief moment of time together, it hardly seems fair. But it’s precious, and maybe it’s enough, and maybe it’s right that our bodies dissolve into the earth, giving our energy back to it, feeding the little creatures in the ground and giving nutrients to the soil, and maybe it’s right that our consciousness rests. The thought is peaceful.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“But there won’t be any more journeys after this one, no more oceans explored. And maybe that’s why I am filled with calm. My life has been a migration without a destination, and that in itself is senseless. I leave for no reason, just to be moving, and it breaks my heart a thousand times, a million.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“I can't move to pull on my clothes except that somehow I do, and I can't stand on two feet except that somehow I do, and I can't walk, there's no way I can walk, except I do. I take step after step after step after step.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“The world he describes, empty of wild creatures and places, overrun instead by people and their agriculture, is a dying world” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“It’s impossible to control someone else’s capacity for forgiveness.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“All creatures know love, Dad used to say. All creatures.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“I never worked out how to be relied upon and also free.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“He said our lives mean nothing except as a cycle of regeneration, that we are incomprehensibly brief sparks, just as the animals are, that we are no more important than they are, no more worthy of life than any living creature. That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations
“You must know monsters well, wolf girl.”“I’ve never met one in the wild. They don’t live there.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you're blind...We do that. We are the people killers, the children killers. We're the monsters.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“How lonely it will be here, when it's just us.” ― Charlotte McConaghy , Migrations
“I think it’s civilization makes us violent. We infect each other.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
“this is the thing, isn’t it? This is the fear they live with now. The children in us long for monsters to take forms we understand. They want to fear the wolves because they don’t want to fear each other.” ― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves
