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“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

“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Catherine," said the Marquess, placing one hand on Cath’s shoulder and one on his wife’s. "We know you’ve been through some . . . difficult things recently."

Anger, hot and throbbing, blurred in her vision.

"But we want you to be sure . . . absolutely sure this is what you want." His eyes turned wary beneath his bushy eyebrows. "We want you to be happy. That’s all we’ve ever wanted. Is this what’s going to make you happy?"

Cath held his gaze, feeling the puncture of Raven’s talons on her shoulder, the weight of the rubies around her throat, the itch of her petticoat on her thighs.

"How different everything could have been," she said, "if you had thought to ask me that before."

She shrugged his arm away and pushed between them. She didn’t look back.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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

“What are you doing here?” she whispered. “You’re…” He grinned. “A wanted man?” She ducked beneath the raised hands of the next couple. Rotated back. Curtsied. “Exactly,” she said as her palm found Jest’s again. “Good,” he said, his dimples showing, “I hoped you might still feel that way.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Fair evening, Lady Pinkerton. I hope you enjoy satisfyingly deep breaths during your ride home." Part mortified, part despicably impressed, Catherine marched up the last step and slammed the carriage door shut.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“I cannot tell you how I look forward to a lifetime at your side, and all th and impossible things I’ll have you believing in.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“...she's the jammiest bit of jam, isn't she”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Besides,” Hatta said, tossing the shredded paper back at her. It wisped and fluttered and clung to the fabric of her gown. “I have a personal rule about not entering into business with spineless creatures. No snakes. No slippery eels. And worst of all, no fickle women.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“His eyes were the colour of gold, of sunflowers and butterscotch and lemons hanging heavy on their boughs - Jest”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“My heart is not a game piece, to be played and discarded at will.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“I've become rather fond of fools.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Your future is written on stone, but not in it.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Maybe there is no amount of magic that could ever make this a possibility,’ she whispered against his jaw. He was trembling, but so slightly she could only tell when she stood so close. ‘If I am not to have happiness, let me at least have a purpose. Let me give you the heart of a queen.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams or the pain of a broken heart. It was a new day in Hearts, and she was the Queen.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Off with its head,” she whispered to herself,”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Of course, ignoble idiocy seems to be an epidemic around these parts." Cheshire began to fade away. "So he shall not be alone.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion— a blind and aimless Fury. —LEWIS CARROLL”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Wishes have value, Lady Pinkerton. You have my gratitude.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“We can’t choose where our affections lie.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Even the blackest heart once beat red.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“We are a parliament of idiots. A murder of fools."
"No," said Jest, his voice soft. "That would be an unkindness.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless