Heartless Quotes

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Oscar Wilde
“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Marissa Meyer
“To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Impossible is my specialty.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Mind my words, Cheshire, I will have you banished from this kingdom if you tempt me."
"An empty threat from an empty girl."
She rounded on him, teeth flashing. "I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you."
"There was a time" – Cheshire yawned – "when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,' he said, vanishing up to his neck. 'They happen only in nightmares.'
His head spiralled and he was gone.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Margaret Atwood
“Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow.
I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Thomas  Harris
“He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.”
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

Anne Elisabeth Stengl
“If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.”
Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Heartless

Shannon L. Alder
“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
Shannon L. Alder

Marissa Meyer
“Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Everyone always underestimates the idiot.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Why is a raven like a writing desk? They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Gillian Flynn
“I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Shannon L. Alder
“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.”
Shannon L. Alder

Marissa Meyer
“Why is a raven like a writing desk? Because they both have quills dipped in ink.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Is that . . . has it all been for that? The tea party, the letters, what you said at the festival . . . all of it, no more than an attempt to steal my heart so you could take it back to your queen?’
‘The easiest way to steal something,’ Jest murmured, ‘is for it to be given willingly.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Gillian Flynn
“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Marissa Meyer
“Besides, if you ever did eat some bad food, I could still find a use for you. I've always wanted a cat-drawn carriage."
Cheshire opened one eye, his pupil slitted and unamused.
"I would dangle balls of yarn and fish bones out in front to keep you moving."
He stopped purring long enough to say, "You are not as cute as you think you are, Lady Pinkerton.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Gillian Flynn
“She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Shannon L. Alder
“A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.”
Shannon L. Alder

Michael Bassey Johnson
“A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Gail Carriger
“Follow that porcupine!”
Gail Carriger

Jonaxx
“Ba’t hindi ikaw? I damn love you, Coreen. Hindi ko kaya. How many times do I have to tell you that? Namulat na lang ako na mahal kita at hindi iyon tulad sa pag ibig mo kay Noah na biglaan na lang naglalaho.”
jonaxx, Heartless

Peggy Webb
“She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.”
Peggy Webb, The Mona Lucy

Marissa Meyer
“There was a time" – Cheshire yawned – "when you overflowed with whimsy and icing sugar. I liked that Catherine better.”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Your so-called morals are nothing but an excuse to act better than the rest of us. To treat us as though we are not as clever or as righteous as you, when really, all you're doing is trying to hide your own insecurities! It's childish and contemptible and I've put up with it long enough.'

- Catherine”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

Marissa Meyer
“Let me give you the heart of a queen.'

- Catherine”
Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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