The Queen of Hearts Quotes

“The other thing that I loathed was the complete inability of most people to think critically. They accepted as gospel all kinds of things without ever objectively examining for themselves why they so fervently believed them.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Your past is set, but your future is wide open.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“I missed her even more than if she'd died. At least the dead cannot hate you.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“it’s the choices we make when we ignore our scornful intellects and follow our thumping hearts.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Soft puffs of warm air wafted around the corners of the side streets onto Tryon Street, as if being exhaled from some hidden lounging giant, capriciously ruffling hair and thrusting stray scraps of paper aloft, whirling them around like fall leaves.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“an aspect of your own personality: your sense of humor or your ability to empathize. You wouldn’t be the same person without your friend as your external hard drive. I know, because for quite a while I thought I would lose her.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“loved her with a devotion born of shared history. Ours was a friendship forged when we were young, the kind that endures no matter what because losing it would be like losing”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“I think of myself as a good person. But maybe everyone does? Regardless of what I think of myself, the undeniable truth is that I’ve done some very shameful things.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s this: the past is never really gone. It’s one long chain linking the present and also the future, and sometimes it doubles back on itself, exposing the things you thought were buried.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“There is no more debilitating emotion than shame. Even grief has a redeeming clarity and purity to it: you know there is a terrible beauty in loving something so much that its loss nearly ends you. But there is no redeeming quality to shame. It’s ugly.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“I was older; my life had irrevocably changed. My younger self had thrived on intensity, but now I knew the bottomless, elementary pull of love for my husband and children. I should no longer want to be consumed by the sun when I could bask safely in the glow of the moon.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Mark Twain—said this about the human heart: You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Meetings are the enemy of progress.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Although scrubs seem designed to render the wearer as rectangular as possible, I knew that my figure still came across as feminine. I was lucky: I was curvy but slender, even though I ate like a starving carnivorous beast.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“Ours was a friendship forged when we were young, the kind that endures no matter what because losing it would be like losing an aspect of your own personality: your sense of humor or your ability to empathize. You wouldn't be the same person without your friend as your external hard drive.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts

“You'd be a brilliant physician and a caring one no matter what. Now you'll be the most conscientious doctor you can be, because you know what it's like to fall into the depths. Maybe it seems easier to quit at this point, but, Zadie, you owe it to her to keep going.”
― Kimmery Martin, The Queen of Hearts