46 Quotes by Charlotte McConaghy

What makes a young thing like you so tired of life?

Why did he say that thing, that wrecking ball of a thing, and did he mean it? Did he know, somehow, that I've been waiting for someone to smash me to bits, to do the wrecking so I mustn't always do it myself?

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.

In my heart I feel the truth. Whatever is left of me loves whatever is left of you. And when we become more, I will love you more. And more. And more again. Because you are my choice, my only choice.

Fear like a fluttering raven in my breast.

And so. And so you came to the end after all, with no way out, no choice at the last on how you left this world. I should have known it would be this way: bloody and violent and surrounded by beauty.

I think there is meaning, and it lives in nurturing, in making life sweeter for ourselves, and for those around us.

I shrugged a little helplessly. ‘We have no say, in this life, in how hard things will be. What we can control is how hard we fight. How long we endure. How strongly we love.

Clarity returns with a punch to the lungs. Move, I order myself. I’ve always been good at cold—I used to swim in it twice a day, but it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten, I’ve become soft to it.