heartless

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ccb543d	"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances." --	algy calm calmness heartless heartlessness muffins oscar-wilde	Oscar Wilde
e4f2d06	He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.	heart heartless heartlessness horror human-nature monster murder psychopath psychopaths serial-killer soul the-silence-of-the-lambs	Thomas Harris
9592e1e	I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.	control dick emotional emotions heartless judgemental judging judging-by-appearance jumping-to-conclusions mean outer-appearance panic stoic truth what-s-inside-that-counts words	Gillian Flynn
108a015	The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.	bullying change change-for-worse criticism emotional-turmoil failure flaws hatred heartbreak heartless hurtful i-miss-who-you-were loss love marriage missing-who-someone-was nothing puppeteer relationships scary strangers turmoil	Gillian Flynn
2ab7051	She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.	black-heart evil gone grief grieving heartless malicious nothing release sadist sadistic self-obsessed self-obsession stoic unimportant	Gillian Flynn
9dda7a1	"The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one."	cost family-love heartless sibling-relationships	Beth Revis
8816208	He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her.	georgian heartless historical-romance longing mary-balogh possession romance sexy	Mary Balogh
3bcc409	I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.	dialogue georgian heartless historical-romance mary-balogh romance romantic	Mary Balogh
c4e4370	Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.	dissatisfied georgian happiness heartless mary-balogh striving unhappy	Mary Balogh

ccb543d

"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances." --

algy calm calmness heartless heartlessness muffins oscar-wilde

Oscar Wilde

e4f2d06

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

heart heartless heartlessness horror human-nature monster murder psychopath psychopaths serial-killer soul the-silence-of-the-lambs

Thomas Harris

9592e1e

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

control dick emotional emotions heartless judgemental judging judging-by-appearance jumping-to-conclusions mean outer-appearance panic stoic truth what-s-inside-that-counts words

Gillian Flynn

108a015

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.

bullying change change-for-worse criticism emotional-turmoil failure flaws hatred heartbreak heartless hurtful i-miss-who-you-were loss love marriage missing-who-someone-was nothing puppeteer relationships scary strangers turmoil

Gillian Flynn

2ab7051

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

black-heart evil gone grief grieving heartless malicious nothing release sadist sadistic self-obsessed self-obsession stoic unimportant

Gillian Flynn

9dda7a1

"The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one."

cost family-love heartless sibling-relationships

Beth Revis

8816208

He had not meant the words in that way. He had been talking strictly about possession. But oh, the longing for his love was an unbearably painful ache in her.

georgian heartless historical-romance longing mary-balogh possession romance sexy

Mary Balogh

3bcc409

I wish it be understood that she will always be first in my life, before any other member of my family or hers and before all my other duties. I will not tolerate criticism of that fact even from you. I will hear none from you ever again.

dialogue georgian heartless historical-romance mary-balogh romance romantic

Mary Balogh

c4e4370

Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.

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Mary Balogh