46 Quotes by Charlotte McConaghy

It starts as a tickle that creeps its way deeper, into a scratch, a scrape, a choke, until all I can do is cough up feather after feather, born of my very body and I can’t get any air, not one breath— “Franny!

Migration is inherent to their nature,” Niall says. “But it doesn’t have to be,” Harriet says. “We live now in a state of necessary adaptation. This is what’s required of them—it is the only means of survival, as it has always been.

He smiled. And as I looked at the naked beauty of the expression, I fell in love with him. It was that simple, that complicated.

Mein Leben war ein Vogelzug ohne Ziel, und das an sich ist schon ein Widerspruch. Ich breche auf, ohne Grund, nur um in Bewegung zu bleiben, und es bricht mir tausendfach, millionenfach das Herz.

And that was when I realised I wasn't the strongest man in the world after all. I was the weakest.

Who has ever loved as boldly as he does?

How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed.

She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real beauty simply came from happiness.

And that was when I realised I wasn’t the strongest man in the world after all. I was the weakest.