46 Quotes by Charlotte McConaghy

It’s simple, being hurt. But it’s complicated, loving someone.

A woman’s beauty is in her strength and her passion.

And then I stopped thinking about Prince Ambrose of Pirenti, because he was destroying me.

There are languages without words and violence is one of them.

Even though they are as varied as a group of people can be, I can tell they are the same, all of these sailors. Something was missing in their lives on land, and they went seeking the answer. Whatever it was, I don’t doubt for a second that they each found it. They are migrants of land, and they love it out here on an ocean that offered them a different way of life, they love this boat, and, as much as they may bicker and fight, they love each other.

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.

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.

Don’t, I whisper, inside. Don’t leave. But I know she must. It’s in her nature.

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.