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“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

“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

“I would write it all down. All of it. All the stuff that made me feel weird and mushy and stupid and scared when I went to say it, and sometimes even when I thought about it.”
― Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

“You left me perhapsless, stuck in your goddamn labyrinth”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska