The Girl from the Channel Islands Quotes

“How easy it was to access hate, Hedy pondered. How close to the surface that putrid emotion always floated, waiting for a target, biding its time to find a focus and bloom like a poisonous algae,”
― Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

“Hedy understood that she was no more than a cork bobbing on the surface of the harbor, waiting to see where the current would take her.”
― Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

“Survival, it seemed, was an expensive business for the soul.”
― Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

“Everywhere she looked, Hedy saw faces creased with emotion—women cuddling children, husbands kissing wives, old men wiping tears of joy. “Isn’t it wonderful?”
― Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

“God will find a path for me, for all of us, if it’s his will.”
― Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

“Even if you forget the past, it will remember you,” her”
― Jenny Lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands

“If she was the only one of her family left, she considered, she carried a responsibility now. She needed to stand up straight again, get a grip on herself.”
― jenny lecoat, The Girl from the Channel Islands