Heartless Quotes
"We are going to have the best bakery in all of Hearts."
"You can't eat like a piglet and dress like a lady."
"You are not as cute as you think you are, Lady Pinkerton."
"Whatever are you asking me for, you doltish bird?"
"I thought perhaps you had forgotten your companion in the dark, downtrodden."
"I know nothing of your hoped-for salt, though with your plan I find a fault."
"To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days."
"It’s just that the King intended to ask for a lady’s hand in marriage during tonight’s ball, and . . . with your gown, I suppose I’d assumed . . ."
"I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
"I can run any amount of calculations, consider every angle of profits and losses."
"The fluttering in her stomach returned and she squirmed further into the covers."
"The courtship period is the foundation upon which a happy marriage will stand, and should not be hurried by any devoted lover."
"I believe he honestly cares for you, as well as he can."
"He was the court joker, but no one knew where he had come from."
"It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you."
"One might find it unnatural. To play the flute and the mandolin, and to know card tricks and magic tricks and riddles."
"It’s enough to make the rest of us feel unaccomplished."
"I may have forgotten to give him the macarons."
"It’s astonishing that such a horrid man can grow something so scrumptious."
"We have had no other prospects, you know. No offers of courtship. Nothing!"
"I wouldn’t be sulking if I were eating bread pudding."
"That’s why none of the men want anything to do with you."
"She is a remarkably skilled croquetesse."
"My opposition is because queens do not start bakeries."
"I’m going to stop being a fool. Tonight. Now."
"I suppose I don’t know him very well at all."
"I thought you were going to faint again. Have you eaten anything today?"
"I want to make them proud, but we have such different opinions on what my future should hold."
"It’s as though . . . if I love them enough, surely I could learn to love the King too."
"I can’t compete with a king, and I won’t compete with the man who’s given me employment."
"In fact, poetry and gifts may have their place, but I find I'm more keen on those acts of courtship that retain an element of foolishness, and hint at impossibilities."
"Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to."
"I don't care about inheriting your title. I don't care about being married off, to the King or anyone else. This is what I want, and it isn't fair for you to think that you know my heart better than I do."
"The materials with which my hats are crafted all come from the lands of the Red and White Queens."
"Enough of that. Let's go to bed. It's late, and I think tomorrow will bring better things."
"How would you know? You were born into all of this. You know nothing about business ownership."
"How can luxury matter if your life is a lie?"
"Are you sure you wouldn’t prefer to stay here and live your days in luxury?"
"I love you too, Cath. I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did."
"Why is a raven like a writing desk? It’s not. It’s just a stupid riddle. It is nothing but stuff and nonsense!"
"You did not deserve him. I’m glad he cannot see you now. I’m glad he’ll never know how quickly you fell into the King’s arms."
"I am growing impatient. My hatred is burning a hole through my stomach, and it flares hotter every day that passes."
"You’re right. He was innocent. Martyrs usually are."
"What is there to worry about? I am going to be a queen. I’m the luckiest girl in Hearts."
"I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing."
"Don’t be rude, Lady Pinkerton. Look around. There is no room for you at this table."
"Anything is possible when you know the way through the Looking Glass!"
"The moral of that is that 'you can't judge a book by its cover.'"
"Once I was a lonely Rook upon a distant shore, and I would murder for my queen so we might win a war."
"Such a heart can't be mended. I hope I won't be tasked with keeping such a useless artifact for much longer."
"They freed me. They fulfilled their promise."
"As the Queen of Hearts, I declare this man guilty. Guilty of murder. Guilty of thievery and kidnapping and all the rest."
"I am your witness. I was there and I have already told you what happened. He is a murderer and he deserves to be punished."
"I reject the jury's verdict. As the Queen of Hearts, I declare this man guilty."