Jar of Hearts Quotes

“Living a life that isn’t meant for you is its own version of hell.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“In every story, there’s a hero and villain. Sometimes one person can be both.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Whoever said lying was hard was so, so wrong. Lying was easy. Lying was like a hot knife slicing through room-temperature butter. Lying was a bunch of words strung together in a pretty sentence designed to make the other person feel like everything was fine. Telling the truth, however, was impossible.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“You only get one heart", Walter said to his daughter after the second one ended. He seemed sad, but not regretful. " I gave mine to your mother the day I met her. And she still has it.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“You see what you want to see, not what's there.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“The past is always with you, whether you choose to think about it or not, whether you take responsibility for it or not. You carry the past with you because it transforms you. You can try to bury it and pretend it never happened, but that doesn’t work.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Everyone has a single defining moment in life, something that thrusts them irrevocably into a new direction, something that affects them at their core, something that changes them forever.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“He believed that the dead were already at peace. It was the living who suffered.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Because she was offered so much freedom, she hardly ever felt the need to take it. Funny how that worked.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Nothing is more satisfying to humans than watching another person fail. Especially when it’s someone who has everything you don’t:”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“because in the end, people are only out to protect themselves?”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“His job isn’t to find evidence to fit the theory. It’s to come up with a theory based on the evidence.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“She feels everything, and nothing, all at the same time.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“you never think about what serial killers eat, do you? I mean, other than Jeffrey Dahmer.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“The past is always with you, whether you choose to think about it or not, whether you take responsibility for it or not. You carry the past with you because it transforms you.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ~Arthur Conan Doyle”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Someone has to be alive to remember them. If they’re not remembered, then it’s like they never existed in the first place. And so, if not me, then who?”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“A relationship isn’t supposed to make you feel out of control; it’s not supposed to consume you; it’s not supposed to change you into someone you don’t want to be. But how do you teach that? How do you explain to someone who’s never been in a romantic relationship what a healthy relationship feels like?”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“The constant noise makes the room feel smaller than it is, and the persistent aroma of sweat and farts makes it feel claustrophobic.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“I learned to live half alive And now you want me one more time.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“How do you explain to a sixteen-year-old girl who’s never been in love what love is supposed to feel like?”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“We see what we want to see,” the girl said”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“It’s easy to get lost in the past, to get buried under the weight and the complexity of the memories she carries with her. The only way to survive it, to have any kind of life despite it, is to compartmentalize it. That chapter in her life all those years ago in high school is best put away in a locked box and shoved into a drawer, to be taken out and dissected only when she’s forced to. The rest of the time, it’s best not to think about it. There is no other way to move forward.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“that’s what liars did. They lied. And then they lied some more to protect those lies.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“I know I can’t take one more step towards you ’Cause all that’s waiting is regret Don’t you know I’m not your ghost anymore You lost the love I love the most I learned to live half alive And now you want me one more time.” ~ Christina Perri, “Jar of Hearts”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“She had a son, and he was gone. She had never known him, never seen him, never cradled him, but the loss of him was as great as if she had loved him and held him and breathed him in her whole life.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“The sobs started in her stomach, and her abdominal muscles, already bruised and tender, screamed out in pain as she cried, for the loss of her child, the loss of her mother, the loss of Angela, the loss of the person she thought she was, and the person she thought she would be. She had taken a life and had now given a life, but neither act made up for the other. It was a loss multiplied by infinity, the grief of it all feeling like a giant hole that would never, ever be filled.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Rape isn’t about sex. It’s about dominance and control. It’s about taking the best parts of a person and leaving the empty shell behind.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Geo cranked the window down. His smell was the first thing she noticed, and it wafted into the car, an intoxicating blend of Budweiser, Calvin Klein Eternity cologne, and Marlboros. If Your Parents Would Hate Him were the name of a cologne, this was exactly what it would smell like.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts