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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
The fate of their lives, how grotesque.
A story of lies and, a story of sorrow.
The passion once in her heart, now hollow.
The jester's pledge to his beloved, now forgotten with his soul.
The queen's tyranny and her eyes had gone cold.
Off with his head, she spoke with a vengeance and hidden glee.
The hatter's madness made him laugh like a banshee.
A silent whisper from a gossipy cat with feline whiskers.
Greatly missing the whimsical child he once held dear.
All because of an honest mistake involving pumpkins.
That lead to a sickly wife who became a corruption.
Now she was a monster of great wings and destruction.
Leaving her husband, the only one who could make any deductions.
Three pale-skinned creatures by the treacle well.
The only ones who drew their fates and left them to compel.
If only time could have been more merciful.
Because their stories would make even the harshest of hearts sniffle.
A romance that ended tragically, emphatically.
Left a hatred-filled heart that spoke sporadically.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
The maker of hats had no answer, for his mind was a mess.
The maiden with a faint heart, who had made bad choices.
Now she bears the burden of her regrettable actions.
And in the distance, a young gal in blue would soon fall through the looking glass.
If she could actually help them, she'd be one crazy, impossible lass.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
- A poem inspired by Heartless by Marissa Meyers
I highly recommend this book to anyone it's so good!
One of the things I love about Catherine’s character in Heartless is that she doesn’t do a complete 180 bcuz her heart broke or something like in most “kind person turns to villain” books I read. Thing is: Catherine was never a kind person to begin with, she was a people-pleaser and had trouble standing up for herself, and that covered up so many of the small little hints that show her true nature and personality.
She threatened a flamingo to help her win a silly game, she stole a pumpkin she was specifically told not to take because she needed it to win a competition and when that went wrong she immediately blamed Hatta even though it was so blatantly an implication of her own actions. It’s funny to me how in one scene where she caught the husband of the jabberwocky (i forgot his name, I haven’t read the books in a while) being mean to his wife her thoughts immediately turned to wanting to see him suffer, that seemed normal to us at the time but after seeing how she could be by the end of the series, it really foreshadows how vindictive her nature is.
Despite all this, you have a hard time hating her because there are so many points in the series where you can’t help but feel sorry for her. The way she misjudged her relationship with Mary Ann, the way she thought she could trust her father to have her back but he turned out to be as spineless as she was, the way her mother abused her, the way her dreams of having a bakery were disregarded over and over, etc. etc.