Lonely Hearts Quotes

“Endings are hard, but important. You have to have an end, so you can have another beginning.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“As far as Elijah Prince was concerned, gay weddings could choke on their own cheery goddamned glitter and die.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“Then we'll be lonely hearts together.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“we’re always our own villains in the end. Which makes them easy to defeat, once we’re ready to admit we were the only ones in our own way.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“As Elijah collapsed, shaking, against him, Baz wrapped his arms around his lover, shut his eyes and let the velvet rope Elijah had used to lead him here settle comfortably around his heart.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“I don’t know why, but nobody undoes me like you. You want to know why I ran from you for a month? That. That right there.” He traced the tip of his nose along Elijah’s. “I’m done running.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“Oh, no you fucking don’t. You do not ignore me for five weeks, rub your toe in the dirt and say you need something from me, then bail when I bleed off some hurt.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“It makes me feel shitty and alone. I don’t want to be alone.” He sagged. “But I think maybe I have to be. Even in a crowd of people, my heart will always ache.” The statement resonated in the furthest hollows of Baz’s soul. “Then we’ll be lonely hearts together.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“How the fuck did somebody come out as trans, anyway? It wasn't about who you flirted with on the dance floor or walked down the aisle with. It was about who you fucking were. It wasn't putting on drag. It was God putting it on you without your consent.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“I should probably be noble and tell you I’ll let you go if it’s what you want, but I’m a spoiled, selfish brat. I’ll follow you, beg you, bribe you to stay. Because you’re the first one to make it to my island. I don’t want to let you leave.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“We can’t date. Maybe we could fuck occasionally. But that’s it. Anything else is ridiculous.”
A shiver ran through him as Baz’s body brushed his, hands skating over his arms. “Let’s be ridiculous.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“he knew now Sebastian Acker could wear all the wigs he wanted, could play all the games in the world, but he’d never be dark. He wasn’t even Howl with his heart in a demon’s belly. He held it aching in his own bare hands, desperate to give it away, terrified to try.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“There was no way Baz was consciously mimicking the pose of the Howl’s Moving Castle figurine, yet this was exactly what he was doing. Elijah’s imagination completed the shadows into dark wings, but otherwise it was the same: shorter, hesitant Elijah standing before the taller, hunched, aching Baz, tentatively trying to capture his attention.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“Hush, Sophie. You’re beautiful.” It was, mostly, a quote from the movie, and it finished Elijah off. Shutting his eyes, he leaned into Baz’s touch. “Don’t eat my heart, Howl.” “Never,” Baz vowed, sealing the promise with a kiss.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“Couldn’t stop freaking out. Didn’t want to bother you. Hate bothering people.” “I hate it when people I care about don’t bother me when they’re in trouble.” Baz swatted him lightly on the ass.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“wasn’t even Howl with his heart in a demon’s belly. He held it aching in his own bare hands, desperate to give it away, terrified to try. He had, for quite some time now, been passing it to Elijah. Over and over and over.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“The song was “I See the Light”, another Tangled number. Aaron sang the male part of the duet, and Walter’s friend Rose did a less-than-Mina soprano, but mostly the music fell away in the brilliant presence of the two young men on the dance floor.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“think we ought to live happily ever after. —Howl in Howl’s Moving Castle”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts

“He didn't drool when Baz put his arms around him. But he did melt as surely as if he were a block of ice being embraced by the sun.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Lonely Hearts