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

“Why did we think everything had to be perfect? Because children are perfect, and everything falls into place when you hold your child in your arms. All the things you think you’re going to worry about don’t matter.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“But a dismembered woman is okay?"
Peebles shrugs. "I wasn't trying to be political, Kai. But an adult dead body shows up, part of you can't help but think, even just for a split second, 'What could that person have done to deserve that? What situation did they put themselves in?' But a dead kid shows up, and nobody thinks that, ever. Children are innocent. They're small. They can't defend themselves against predators. They've done nothing to warrant any violence against them. Bad things aren't supposed to happen to kids. It goes against everything we as a civilized society think is acceptable. Your protective instincts kick in." He pauses, then looks up, the light from his head lamp hitting Kaiser square in the eyes. "Okay, perhaps that was a bit political.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“But a dismembered woman is okay?"
Peebles shrugs. "I wasn't trying to be political, Kai. But an adult dead body shows up, part of you can't help but think, even just for a split second, 'What could that person have done to deserve that? What situation did they put themselves in?' But a dead kid shows up, and nobody thinks that, ever. Children are innocent. They're small. They can't defend themselves against predators. They've done nothing to warrant any violence again them. Bad things aren't supposed to happed to kids. It goes against everything we as a civilized society think is acceptable. Your protective instincts kick in." He pauses, then looks up, the light from his head lamp hitting Kaiser square in the eyes. "Okay, perhaps that was a bit political.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“But what upsets people isn’t just what I did that night. It’s that I had the audacity to go on with my life. I went to college, climbed the corporate ladder, bought a nice car, got myself a rich fiancé. I built a successful life on top of the shitty, horrific thing I did. Without owning up to it. Without paying for it first. That’s what people can’t forgive.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“This wasn’t sex at all, was it? This was something else entirely. This was dominance. This was taking something he wanted that she didn’t want to give. This was rape.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“It wasn’t just Angela who died that night. Part of Geo did, too, and she’s long suspected it was the best part of her.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“She loved Calvin so much that she began to accept that this was part of the package, part of the price she had to pay to be with him. Because the alternative—not being with him—was unfathomable.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“But it doesn’t work that way. 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. Geo knows that from experience. Because buried things can, and do, come back.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Calvin’s back. Just in time to welcome her home.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts