“A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.”

“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”

“I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king.”

“In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.”

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”

“E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.”

“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”

“Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.”

“What a strange world we live in… Said Alice to the Queen of hearts”

“I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart”