Jane Healey > Quotes

“I had never been the sort of person who was first to offer sympathy, a handkerchief, a listening ear, to an acquaintance who looked distressed, but something about Lucy made me wish to be. I wanted to help her; I wanted to make her smile.”
― Jane Healey, The Animals at Lockwood Manor

“Perhaps I could be like some desert plant, and these months together could be the rarest of summer rainstorms, could be all the water I would ever need to survive, to live on—but I knew that could not be true, for I was a creature of flesh and blood.”
― Jane Healey, The Animals at Lockwood Manor

“Besides, the servants would have surely swept it outside, I thought, picturing each separate curl dancing in the wind, strands floating across the gardens, pieces of me littering the estate, tangled up with the plants and trees, invisible to anyone searching.”
― Jane Healey, The Animals at Lockwood Manor

“would have moments where I would realize how long it had been since anyone had touched me—even a handshake, or a hand placed on my forearm, a simple hug”
― Jane Healey, The Animals at Lockwood Manor