Foolish Hearts Quotes

“Sometimes it's hard to know if something's for real? It's hard to believe it, even if you want it to be real. Even if you want it so badly. Sometimes it seems...safer, you know. Not to risk it.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“It's like a snort," I say. "Like a snort chortle. It's a snortle."
He moves a little closer. "Is that a Pokemon?”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Look at those legs,” Noah says. “Look at that bone structure. Look at those eyes, you could get fucking lost in them.” “You need Google Maps to find your way out of my eyes,” Gideon says, executing an elaborate turn before catwalking back.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Sometimes...around some people, I feel like I have to, like...try, you know?...But with you-- when I'm with you, I can just...exist. You know what I mean?”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“If you only like one version of your favorite, then they’re not your favorite,” she says primly, and I can’t really argue with that.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“It just feels like..." Her voice small. "Sometimes it just feels like I'm faking."
"Maybe everyone feels that way.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Are you ready to put the ‘fun’ in Fall Fun Fest?” he says as I slap his palm.
“I can at least put the ‘trip’ in ‘Triple F.’” A pause. “By being clumsy, I mean. Not by, like, sharing drugs with the group.” Three sets of eyes are on me, and I can’t stop myself from talking. “I don’t have any drugs. In case you were worried. Or, in case you were … expecting me to have drugs.…”
Gideon grins.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“When I'm interested in a thing, I want to know about that thing. Extensively.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Maybe I don't think the first part is the best part. Maybe I like the part later on. Hearing a song so many times you know all the little ins and outs of it. Experiencing something so many times that you can just... live in it. Maybe I like that better.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“But I guess it looked how some little part of me wanted things to look. Even if it was just for a second. Like some TV version of high school.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“You're thinking really loudly.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“In truth, we are rarely all on the same page. More often than not, they're all on one page, and I' on a completely different one.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“There's something soft in his expression that I don't know what to do with, so I take another drink and then say, 'There's also this wizard we really want to fight'.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“She's also ruthless and unforgiving and, some would say, ill-mannered and incredibly unpleasant. Somehow, this doesn't seem to affect her political standing, but then again, that often seems to be the case in the real world as well”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“So I do what I do best, or what I do worst, I suppose—my greatest strength is also my greatest weakness. I break it.
“I had the faucet on,” I say. “Really loud. And I pee pretty loud. I’m surprised you guys didn’t hear me, it was like Niagara Falls in here. Just really … very loud in volume. A lot of … liquids … flowing in a … noisy fashion.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“This was possibly the first time anyone had used the phrase "too cerebral" when describing Pinky's advertising. Because someone somewhere in the Pinky's marketing scheme had made the brilliant connection that sub sandwiches are vaguely phallic. And from that, all the penis-related Pinky sub campaigns were born.

Like the commercial where you see the guy standing from the back, and then a woman in front of him, and she says, "Nine inches????" in this insane lusty voice, and then they pan to the side and show he's holding a Pinky sub right at groin height? It's the worst. It is literally the worst. I'm a cog in the world's dumbest corporate sandwich machine.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“It's just...sometimes he says or does something so random it's like he's a life-form from another planet who's failing at blending into life on earth but trying like really hard, and you just have to share it with other people.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“What would a pie chart of your malicious to non-malicious thoughts look like? How big a piece of the pie is non-malicious?”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“I know that she hates change. She gets anxious about the future.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“You know those people where it’s like, you know they could kill you, but it would be a privilege to die by their hand?”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“His eyes light up upon seeing the cookies. “Did you make them?”
“My sister did. They’re just the break-and-bake kind.”
“Those are my favorite.”
“No they’re not,” Victoria says.
“Hey, how about you head upstairs and start getting ready for bed?”
“It’s seven o’clock.”
“How about you head upstairs and just … stay there?”
They look at each other for a long moment and seem to be having some kind of nonverbal sibling communication. Finally Victoria sighs and steps away from the door.
“I get half of those cookies.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“But I did drive all the way here. And I put on a shirt with like an actual shape to it, which goes against my nonuniform, nonwork clothes policy of maximum comfort and minimal effort.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“I consider it for a moment. I could consider it for a lot of moments, if left unchecked. Not just the kiss in the hall outside the auditorium, but the ones in the parking lot afterward and at the cast party and on the street outside after the cast party. Gideon with his cheeks flushed and his eyes bright, close enough that he was blurry saying I like you, you know. Like so much, so much, so much— each one punctuated by a kiss to a different place.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“I just look up at Gideon’s face, at the smile blooming there, with his unfathomable dimples, and his eyes that you need Google Maps to find your way out of, warm and bright and shining.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts

“Everything is Gideon Prewitt sensory overload, but then I don’t think there could even be such a thing. I don’t think there could ever be too much of him.”
― Emma Mills, Foolish Hearts