H Quotes
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“He did that slow perusal thing with his eyes that guys did when they wanted a girl to know they liked what they saw. A slow smile curved his lips. “Yep.”
She recognized that look. She may have been out of the dating game for far too long, but she still understood the process. What she didn’t know was how to respond.”
Source: Naked Truth
“He did try, Lana. Men aren’t good at talking about emotions. When it comes to love, we prefer to show, not tell how we feel.’ He placed a comforting arm over her shoulders.
Alannah glared at him. ‘Wait, so you’re siding with Liam on this?’
He shook his head. ‘No, I’m merely suggesting you might need to pay more attention to what guys do rather than what they say.”
Source: Winter's Maiden 1
“He did what he could, and that was more than enough.”
Source: Cold Skin
“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
Source: War and Peace
“He did what?!" His shoulder jerked out from under her. "Give me the key. I'm going over there---"
"And what?" Seeing the ire, so purely parental, sparked life into her heart. "You'll threaten him into marrying me?"
"Hardly. I'll threaten his life if he dares to come home again”
Source: The Lost Heiress
“He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.”
Source: Sourcery
“He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.”
Source: Birdsong
“He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?”
Source: Ravelstein
“He didn’t believe in God, but he believed even less in cheapness. Besides, life’s never been anything else except a brief, frightened, bewildered shopping expedition.”
Source: The Gasp
“He didn't believe in humanity. He didn't believe in himself. He tried and failed to change the world - and ended up being written off as a fictional character.”
Source: Daughter of the Deep
“He didn’t believe in the future, only the present, and as our future, our years, had turned so relentlessly into identical presents, I understood him more. Eight years had passed, and I was still at war, cooking chickens, waiting to go home for good. Eight years of talking about the future, and seeing it, turn into the present. Years of thinking, ‘in another year, I’ll be doing something different,’ and in another year doing just the same.
Future. Crossed out.
That’s what the war does.”
“He didn’t believe that, surely.” “Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn’t want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“He didn't believe they could kiss. He believed in doomed love and unhappily ever after.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.”
Source: Breaking Away
“He didn't bother to threaten me, yet. I hated him for it. I should be worth threatening.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“He didn’t care for Clive [anymore], but he could suffer from him.”
Source: Maurice
“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time ago that he cannot control the way someone narrates their side of the story. The world had forced him to grow up he never knew what being truly free and careless was. He was the grandchild of the witches they burnt, so he would make the world a purgatory so his soul could feel warm.”
Source: Of Vengeance and Ashes
“He didn’t care if I hated him, only that I did as I was told.”
Source: Devil Went Down: And Hell Came Running
“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.”
Source: A Civil Contract
“He didn't dare ask for anything. He only wanted to hide. He only wanted to continue like this, slow and steady. He wouldn't dare entertain thoughts of reciprocation. If he could be allowed to quietly harbor these unrequited feelings, to like someone in secret, to treat that person well in his role as his shizun – then that would be enough, he thought. He would be quite satisfied.”
Source: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 5
“He didn't deserve to die the way he did.”
Source: The Book Thief
“He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.”
Source: Watermelon
“He didn’t even have time to cry out as she swept his feet out from under him, nor did he have time to raise his weapon before she
crouched over his chest, the iron-coated tip of the staff at his throat. She brought her mouth close to his ear. “My name is Celaena
Sardothien,” she whispered. “But it makes no difference if my name’s Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I’d still beat you, no matter what you call me.” She smiled at him as she stood. He just stared up at her, his bloody nose leaking down the side of his cheek. She took the handkerchief from her pocket and dropped it on his chest. “You can keep that,” she said before she walked off the veranda.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“He didn’t face her. “I said go away.” “Like I’m going to obey you. You aren’t my daddy. Unless you want to be. ’Cause I’ve been a bad, naughty girl and I need a spanking.”
Source: The Darkest Kiss
“He didn’t fold his arms around her, and he didn’t hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.”
Source: The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel
“he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.”
Source: The Aquitaine Progression
“He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.”
“He didn't go down to dinner at all that night, didn't eat, didn't drink, simply thought of his wife, trying to decide what to do with her. He'd wanted her to suffer, and she'd suffered. He'd wanted her to pay for her deceits, and she'd saved his life. He'd wanted to torment her with the knowledge that she would never see him again and had instead created his own private hell. He wanted her to come to him again, giving herself to him as she had that night before her attempted escape, and he wanted to hear words she would never speak. He'd even started lying to himself as he lay sleepless in his bed, reliving each moment of their last night together, telling himself it was real, that she'd meant every word. He was going mad.”
Source: The Warlord
“He didn't have a natural laugh because he'd never felt real joy.”
Source: 1:35AM
“He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.”
Source: Russian Holiday
“He didn’t have the courage to wait until the old man finished praying. He had no idea how he should respond to the question he was certain would come from the man’s lips. Making a hasty sign of the cross, he placed his hand on the headstone—for the first and last time. Feeling something stronger and more meaningful than anything he had experienced before, he nodded goodbye to the old man and quickly walked toward the cemetery gate.”
Source: The Last
“He didn’t have to be immortal. He didn’t need to be a hero. He didn’t even want to be a saint. He simply wanted to be a good man worthy of Eva Rosselli. He just wanted Eva. He wanted her kisses and her eyes, her smiles and her laughter. He wanted his children in her womb and his mouth on her breasts. He wanted her legs wrapped around his hips and her arms cradling his head as he made love to her. He wanted her promises, her affection and her trust, her years and her secrets. He wanted her prayers and her pride, her tears and her troubles. He wanted Eva. And that was all”
Source: From Sand and Ash
“He didn't have to say much,
It was all in his eyes ~
He didn't have to do much,
It was enough, just to be at his side.”
“He didn’t hear lies. He heard what lived between the smiles—the rot beneath the kindness.”
Source: The Whisper Between Us
“He didn’t just kill them. He owned them. He cleaned their bodies with lavender soap, dressed them in their own nightgowns, and arranged them so perfectly that coroners wrote ‘natural causes’ without a second thought.”
Source: Death By The Salesman: A Tale Of True Crime
“He didn't just want her now. He needed her. He needed to feel his rhythm in her body, to see if his soul was still there in her pleasure.”
Source: Steady Beat
“He didn't just want to mate with Becca, he wanted her to orgasm around his dick for a decade.”
Source: The Bear Who Loved Me
“He didn’t kidnap me. I claimed him!”
Source: A Noble Assassin
“He didn't kiss like other men. There was no smooth seduction. No playful interest. No hint of weighing this kiss against the memory of many others. There was something fierce and hungry in Law's kisses. It was like having the front seat on the Batman roller coaster. The overpowering sensation was that of being swept up by a primal force and taken for a ride.”
Source: Primal Force
“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”
Source: Galapagos
“He didn’t know how it was to be done but he felt quite sure now that he would be able to do it. The Lion drew a deep breath, stooped its head even lower and gave him a Lion’s kiss. And at once Digory felt that new strength and courage had gone into him.”
Source: The Magician’s Nephew
“He didn’t know how to feel—until him.”
Source: Between Masks
“He didn’t know if he was amused or unsettled by her ability to unbalance him the way she had. Correction. He didn’t know if he was amused, unsettled or pleased by her ability.”
Source: Conquered
“He didn’t know it yet, but Blake Pierce suffered a mental break at that very moment, when the supernatural fused with the natural.”
Source: Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2
“He didn't know Rachel very well, but assumed her behavior would be similar to most women he encountered. As soon as he stepped foot inside she would attack, not allowing him to get in a word. At least that was what he imagined.”
Source: The Shield Prophecy
“He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.”
Source: The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
“He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum.”
Source: Sister Sable
“He didn't know what exactly he wanted to say—I'm sorry, I didn't mean it—only the ever-deepening regret at how things were turning out between them, the desperate and impossible desire to go back to the way things had been.”
Source: Little Fires Everywhere
“He didn't know what he'd done to deserve her love, but he thanked the Lord he had it. Then again, when was love ever given because it was deserved? Respect and honor were earned. Awards were deserved. But love was a gift from one heart to another.”
Source: Summer of Joy