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Timothy Heartland
Wallow Heartland—whose full name is Waldo Swallow—is the older brother of Timothy and Olivia. He was 12 at the time of his sister’s death, and he hasn’t been able to forgive himself for it. He feels responsible not only because he and Timothy left her on the beach by herself but because he is the one who gave her crab sled the last push. When he and Timothy find the diabolical goggles, Wallow becomes obsessed with finding Olivia’s ghost—or her remains—to absolve his feelings of responsibility.
Wallow Heartland Quotes in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
The St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves quotes below are all either spoken by Wallow Heartland or refer to Wallow Heartland . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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2. Haunting Olivia Quotes
Getting used to aquatic ghosts is like adjusting to the temperature of the ocean. It takes a few more close encounters with the lambent fish before my pulse quiets down. Once I realize that the ghost fish can’t hurt me, I relax into something I’d call delight if I weren’t supposed to be feeling breathless and bereaved.
I spend the next two hours pretending to look for Olivia. I shadow the spirit manatees, their back scored with keloid stars from motorboat propellers. I somersault through stingrays. Bonefish flicker around me like mute banshees. I figure out how to braid the furry blue light of dead coral reef through my fingertips, and very nearly giggle. I’ve started to enjoy myself and I’ve nearly succeeded in exorcising Olivia from my thoughts, when a bunch of ghost shrimp materialize in front of my goggles […]
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The question has been weighing on my mind more and more heavily of late. Because let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that there is a Glowworm Grotto, and that Olivia’s ghost haunts it. Then what? Do we genie-in-a-bottle her? Keep her company on weekends? I envision eternal Saturday nights spent treading cold water in a cave, crooning lullabies to the husk of Olivia, and shudder.
“What do you mean?” Wallow says, frowning. “We’ll rescue her. We’ll preserve her, uh, you know, her memory.”
“And how exactly do you propose we do that?”
“I don’t know, bro!” Wallow furrows his brow, flustered. You can tell he hasn’t thought much beyond finding Olivia. “We’ll…we’ll put her in an aquarium.”
It seems to me that nobody’s asking the hard questions here. For example, what if ghost-Olivia doesn’t have eyes anymore? Or a nose?
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Wallow Heartland Character Timeline in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
The timeline below shows where the character Wallow Heartland appears in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
2. Haunting Olivia
Timothy Sparrow Heartland and his brother, Waldo Swallow (known to everyone as Wallow), are exploring Gannon’s Boat Graveyard in the middle of the night. Waldo is in the...
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A frustrated Wallow clambers onto the pier and passes the goggles to Timothy, saying that it’s too hard...
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...crab shells a local man named Herb rents out for $2 an hour. Timothy and Wallow left her, even though she was only eight and a half and under-12s were supposed...
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Although Timothy doesn’t want to admit that Wallow was right about the diabolical goggles, he knows that he’s seeing ghost fish, too. He...
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Glowworm Grotto was a place Olivia depicted in drawings. Neither Timothy nor Wallow thought it was a real place, since Olivia spent so much time living in imaginary...
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...nightmares about a gloved hand emerging from the waves to pull her under. He’s lucky, Wallow says. Wallow has nightmares about giving her that last push down the dune and into...
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The next evening, Wallow and Timothy go to Herb’s Crab Sledding Rentals and help themselves to a crab-shell boat,...
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...plesiosaur. On the last night, he falls asleep in the boat and wakes to hear Wallow talking to himself, saying how badly he wants to apologize to Olivia. Then, the brothers...
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