H Quotes
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“He dances all night, utterly naked and composed of nothing but six and a half feet of pale sinew. He could dance to a field of crickets, to the sound of rain on a tin roof, to a stampede.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“He dances until dawn and walks away from the ghosts. Into the light.”
Source: Flightless Bird
“He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.”
Source: A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages
“He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?”
Source: The subtle knife
“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”
“He dared to reach out, finally took the prize he'd been longing to claim. He brushed the back of his hand against her cheek, then cupped her chin to tilt her face up. For a moment, she let him hold her so close that her hot breath brushed his face, then with a start she stumbled away.
"N-no. You shouldn't do that. I'm engaged to your brother."
Her lips formed the words of protest, but her eyes told a different story. She liked his touch, liked his closeness. Deep inside, in places she'd been taught to ignore, she wanted him. A surge of triumph and rekindled desire caught Dominic off guard.
He smiled as he edged closer again, thoroughly enjoying the hunt in a way he hadn't for a long time.
"A married man can't be engaged, Kat."
That made her turn and she steadied herself on the terrace wall when she realized how close he was. But she didn't step away.
"You shouldn't call me that." Her voice trembled like her hands.
"Why? I like it. It fits you." He edged even closer and touched her face a second time. This time she leaned into his palm with a small, almost imperceptible whimper. "But I promise I'll only call you Kat when we're alone. When we're in bed."
Her lips parted with surprise. "We won't ever share a bed," she murmured, but the protest was weak, indeed.
"No?" he whispered.
With a slow dip of his head, Dominic captured her lips. Though she didn't pull back, she seemed frozen with shock and didn't respond immediately either. But that was just part of the challenge. Gently, Dominic nibbled her lower lip, tasting the sweet honey of her skin until she opened her mouth to him with a gasp. He took the access she granted and tasted her. He continued to be gentle, exploring rather than plundering. There would be time to ravage and pillage later.
Finally, with a moan that came from deep within her, Katherine slid her hands up to clutch his arms and tentatively returned his kiss. The reaction sent a rush of longing through him that it nearly unmanned him. The control he'd been so carefully practicing suddenly fled.”
Source: Scandalous
“He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.”
Source: The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“He de recordarme que la gente normal también tiene esta necesidad: la de coger un momento y estirarlo hasta que dure para siempre; el deseo de permanecer así mucho más tiempo de lo que va a durar realmente.”
Source: Every Day
“He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.”
“He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.”
Source: سامسای عاشق
“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”
Source: V.
“He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong. But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely unavoidable. It had started on the day they'd clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever. He felt certain of this.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
“He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.”
“He decided to remind them of their main motivations for being there.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He decided to spend his time dancing around the block. In this sequence of joy, every material object to him had the same value. He’d walk around knocking things over because they didn’t matter. They were just things. His outlook and the universe were always bigger. There was no stopping a person who minimized what ought to be minimized. Charlie couldn’t be fooled by constructs. There was something precious about the hands that held a glass ornament the same way they held a boulder. Something rare and admirable in its innocence and fearlessness.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“He decided to take the C downtown and fumbled through blizzardy wind to Central Park West. Once there, he stepped inside the park. The wind dropped magically away. In the stillness, Gregory noticed that every twig and branch held a delicate stack of snow. Snow swarmed like honeybees in the golden glow of the old-fashioned streetlamps; it slathered tree trunks and sparkled like crushed diamonds at his feet. He heard a whispering noise and saw two people glide from among the trees on cross-country skis. A lavender lunar radiance filled the park. It was a world from childhood: castles and forests and magic lamps and princes scaling walls of brambles.”
Source: The Candy House
“He decided to tell her some of the truth, without being too specific.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He decidido recordarla como una buena persona con la que pasé buenos ratos hasta que los dos nos metimos en una mala situación imposible de salvar.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“He decorated his accomplishments with a large house, yachts, and weekly morale shindigs for his salesmen bursting with open bars and filet mignon. However, my mother was by far his prettiest accessory.”
Source: Just Another Number
“He deems himself a divine art in progress. He has a conviction that God created him to be a better man, and this serves as the foundation for his confidence.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“He defended you, you know. He said you probably didn’t mean to hurt us, it’s just that you’re hurting. That you’re lost. You left him, the person that loved you your whole life. You left when he needed you the most, and he still defended you. Frankly, you don’t deserve that.”
“I know I don’t.” She was still quiet, but her voice echoed off the walls. She had everyone’s attention. Her eyes looked shiny but her stone expression never wavered. “You should all leave.”
Source: Project Yes
“He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.”
Source: The Night Strangers
“He defined love based on how much sex they had. If they weren't having sex, he felt unloved and rejected. If they were having a lot of sex, he felt loved and desired. But Maddie didn't enjoy sex. She usually just did it for him. This made him feel tricked, because she had presented herself as a "highly sexual person" when they first met, but after a year he realized she wasn't.”
Source: Single On Purpose: Redefine Everything. Find Yourself First.
“He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.”
“He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.”
“He delighted Murs in history with his focused study on the spread of personal electronics through the first world; he aggravated Adler in administration with his focused study on the disparity between Aglionby's publicity budget versus their scholarship budget. He screamed himself hoarse at the sidelines of Koh's soccer match (they lost). He spray-painted the words PEACE, BITCHES on the Dumpster behind a gelato parlor.”
Source: The Raven King
“He delivered a blistering statement regarding the readiness of the general public to recognize psychosomatic illness, while failing to recognize the reverse: that illness of the body was often the cause of seeming illness of the mind. “Now what would you say,” he proposed as an instance, “if you were my
internist, God forbid, and I told you I had headaches, recurring nightmares, nausea, insomnia and blurring of the vision; and also that I generally felt unglued and was worried to death about my job? Would you say I was neurotic?...Those symptoms I gave you are the same as for brain tumor. Check the body. That’s first.”
Source: The Exorcist
“He delivered the mail, ran our modest recycling program, and maintained our handful of public buildings. He also occasionally fell asleep while driving a snowplough, but he was such a cheerful guy it was hard to stay pissed at him. Besides every village needs an idiot.”
Source: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
“He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office.”
Source: The Champions
“He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,” said Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë”
Source: Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
“He denounced him openly as a charlatan--a fraud with no valuable knowledge of any kind, or powers beyond those of an ordinary and rather inferior human being.”
Source: The Mysterious Stranger
“He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.”
Source: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
“He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.”
“He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be suns.”
Source: Gateway
“He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.”
“He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“He descubierto de lo que uno puede ser capaz, que equivale a decir ser capaz de todo. De deseos sublimes o letales, de falta de dignidad, creencias y comportamientos que tildaba de insensatos en los demás, hasta que yo misma recurrí a ellos. Sin que él lo sospeche, me ha ligado más al mundo.”
Source: Simple Passion
“He descubierto que las personas no son más que una capa tras otra de secretos. Crees que las conoces, que las entiendes, pero sus motivos siempre permanecen ocultos, enterrados en sus corazones. Nunca conocerás a nadie, aunque, a veces, puedes decidir confiar en alguien.”
Source: Insurgent
“he descubierto que mis obsesiones al servicio de mis pasiones advierten a la que seré el resto de mi vida.”
Source: Cartas de amor y de rebeldía
“He deserved more than a girl who couldn’t tell him how she felt.
He was perfect, and I was flawed. “Promise me.” His lips touched my temple, his warm breath sending shivers down my body.
Shivers that felt different—like they filled my lower belly with lava. Promise him what? I wondered. I nodded yes anyway, eager to please him, though he hadn’t completed his sentence. My lips moved.
“I promise. I promise. I promise.”
Maybe that’s why he didn’t trust me.
Why he’d sneak into my bedroom that night—and every night, for the next six years—and wrap his arms around me, making sure I was really okay.
Sometimes he smelled of alcohol.
Sometimes of another girl. Fruity and sweet and different.
Oftentimes, he smelled of my heartbreak.
But he was always making sure I was safe.
And he always left before my dad knocked on my door to wake me up.
For the next six years, before jumping through my window, Knight would drop a kiss on my forehead in the exact same spot where shortly thereafter Dad would kiss me good morning, the heat of Knight’s lips still on my skin, making my face radiate.”
Source: Broken Knight
“He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)”
Source: Styxx
“He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.”
Source: The Henna Artist
“He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.”
“He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to move the ball on quickly and when to try the impossible mission. When he learns this, he won't win a single Golden Ball, but an entire collection.”
“He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.”
Source: Tender is the Night
“He desired more, yet more, and finally was not able to desire anything—for whoever knows his heart, whoever has reflected upon the moral nature of man, will certainly agree with me that there can be no pleasure for us without desire.”
Source: Poor Liza
“He desperately wanted to hear Lily say merci again, but Naneh Goli folded a piece of naan around a boiled egg, placed it in his knapsack, and pushed him out the door with a long list of instructions he didn't hear. All he could think was, I fell in love at eight fifteen on the morning of June 9.
Later that afternoon he scurried around the kitchen, underfoot until Naneh Goli sent him to the storeroom for jam. The cellar, illuminated by a bulb on a string, was like a pharmacy, with shelves of rosewater, orange blossom water, quince syrup, lime syrup, vinegars, and jars of pickled vegetables, all painstakingly labeled in Agha (Mr.) Zod's shaky script. Karim paused to read the labels but found nothing to ease the knocking in his chest, so he took the last jar of fig preserves for Lily. His Lily jan (dear), Lily rose, Lily shirin (sweet), Lily morning, Lily moon, Lily merci.”
Source: The Last Days of Café Leila
“He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don't really know Him. And because they don't really know Him, they are lukewarm. The truth is, if you truly knew Him, you couldn't be lukewarm or halfhearted. If you remain lukewarm, maybe it's because you don't know who God really is.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working