“You must know,” said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, “that I have no heart, – if that has anything to do with my memory.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 29. Estella warns Pip that she has no heart, a metaphor for her lack of feeling due to Miss Havisham’s upbringing. She is trying to explain to Pip her emotional detachment and inability to love. This is in response to Pip recalling an incident in Satis House where she made him cry as a boy, something Estella doesn’t remember.