The way to a man’s heart is through his cock

Hana’s remembered maxim, “The way to a man’s heart is through his cock,” turns a crude saying about intimacy into a painful question. Repeated by another character and immediately queried rather than endorsed, it carries the strain of the moment as much as Hana’s view of relationships.

Recollection and Delivery

The saying is introduced as something Hana “always says,” so the speaker presents it as a familiar part of her way of talking. The line is not spoken by Hana in the scene itself: another character recalls it, making the expression both a reported maxim and a point of contact with Hana’s absent voice.

Laughter and Pain

The remembered remark follows laughter that “didn’t really work.” The narration likens it to a cry of misery or pain, placing the saying in a moment where humor fails to conceal distress. Its bluntness therefore does not produce uncomplicated comedy; it sharpens the contrast between a sexual quip and the speaker’s evident unhappiness.

Meaning and Uncertainty

The speaker asks whether Hana is right, but the question does not settle the saying’s truth. Instead, it leaves the maxim suspended between joke, recalled advice, and an attempt to make sense of intimacy. The formulation reduces the route to a man’s emotional attachment to sexual access, while the scene’s painful laughter complicates any reading of it as lighthearted wisdom.