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“But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“The easiest way to steal something, is for it to be given willingly.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“When pleased, I beat like a drum. When sad, I break like glass. Once stolen, I can never be taken back. What am I?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“One to be a murderer. One to be a Martyr. One to be a Monarch. One to go Mad”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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

“Over everything, I choose you”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Perhaps we know each other in the future and you’re only remembering backward.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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

“You have my heart, Jest. I don't know if you deserve it or not. I can't tell if you're a hero or a villain, but it doesn't seem to matter. Either way, my heart is yours.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Her mother sneered. “Then you are a fool.��

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

“Stuff and nonsense. Nonsense and stuff and much of a muchness and nonsense all over again. We are all mad here, don't you know?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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

“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

“Is this what’s going to make you happy?��
‘How different everything could have been, if you had thought to ask me that before.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“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

“Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“For the murder of Jest, the court joker of Hearts, I sentence this man to death.��
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.
‘Off with his head”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn’t keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a pet and couldn’t feed her;
Caught a maid who had meant well
–What became of her, no one can tell”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Off with his head”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Oh no,�� she murmured, her smile thawing, falling, carried away with the undeniable, inevitable, impossible truth of it. She was falling in love with him.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?��
She lifted her chin. ‘Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can’t seem to tell.��
‘They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she'd created joy at the tips of her fingers. Suddenly, the people around the table were no longer strangers. They were friends and confidantes, and she was sharing with them her magic.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“You know as well as I that you're going to break at least one heart before this is over, and I want nothing more to do with you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“She is a rose, Jest. Lovely on the eyes, yes, but such thorns are not to be ignored.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“You must think I’m a fool to even consider rejecting him.��
‘My lady, I am a professional fool. I can say with certainty that you do not have the makings of one.��
She smirked. ‘Then that’s a relief.��
‘Is it? Have you something against fools?��
‘Not at all. Only, if I were as natural at foolishness as I am at poetry, I might try to take your position from you, and you seem so very well suited to it.”
― 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

“Always check your hats be-
fore donning them. You never know what might be lurking inside.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Sweets and Tarts: The Most Wonderous Bakery in All of Hearts”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

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

“Cath snapped the book shut �� the cat barely got his tail out in time. “Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?��

“Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“We’ll open the maze for you. You’ll want to go right. Right is always right. Except when left is right, naturally.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Which must be nonsense.�� “I rather enjoy nonsense.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“You do know that telling a secret destroys its secrecy, don't you?”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“He truly cares for you. I think he honestly means to make you happy."
She expected him to go on. but silence fell. and that seemed to be all he meant to say.
"Are you telling me to accept him?"
"No," he stammered. "I'm saying that if you did accept him, I would understand. I would be happy for you."
She clenched her fists. "How comforting that at least one of us would be.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“A laugh like that is richer than gold to a man of my profession. I'll make it my life's work to hear the sound again.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless