H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.”
Source: A Fighting Chance
“He didn’t show any obvious signs of the Black Death but it would have suited him.”
Source: King Street Run
“He didn’t speak, and neither did I. There was an understanding in our touch that transcended words, reminding me that despite all my doubts and apprehensions, I needed him. For reasons I might never understand, Christian filled a void I’d carried since my mother’s death. I closed my eyes and surrendered to his touch.”
Source: Gaslight
“He didn't
speak. He croaked. And when he croaked, he didn't say much.
He was neither liked nor disliked. He was just there. His face
had wrinkled into strange runs and mounds of unattractive flesh.
No light shone from his face.”
“He didn’t spend time on niceties like saying hello. He answered the phone with, “Have you changed your mind about Thor?” “Um … no,” I said, and he promptly hung”
Source: Hexed
“He didn’t steal youth.
He rented it—with his life.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“He didn't suffer from hunger - he suffered only from a breach in his routine. He was uneasy.”
Source: The Human Factor
“He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.”
Source: Affairytale
“He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy.”
Source: The Tatami Galaxy
“He didn’t teach us what to build. He taught us how to breathe while building, how to stay when frustration rises, how to listen for the moment when effort softens into cooperation.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“He didn't tell his mom, fearing if she knew that he was a Pig Dog, she'd turn away, too.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“He didn't tell me to find another way, because there wasn't one. He didn't offer me to stand in my place, because he knew I needed to be the one to do it. There were no words of comfort, because I had to do something I hated to free us.”
Source: Kingdom of the Feared
“He didn't think his mother's brother used drugs and yet the number of spoons and trap house Feng Shui seemed to keep the option open.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“He didn't think she knew that this cafe allowed you to return to the past.
'How did you know?'
'Your hunting cap ..'
[...]
'I see you've worn it a lot,' she said with a smile.”
“He didn't think they were all after a criminal. He suspected it was an innocent girl.
Well, a beautiful young woman, really; as comely as his niece Tasha, who was so clever with her loom and quick with her tongue. But this girl had extraordinary silver hair-- a color so unusual the captain had seen it only once before in his long years in the guard.
On a royal princess, a tiny baby, dead to the world.
In fairy tales and myths, when children were given up because of a prophecy or because the family was starving, they did disappear into the world for a while-- and then came back years later like a cicada, bringing the power of youth and the unavoidable anger of the gods with them.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“He didn’t think twice about smiling at me like I was his sun and stars.”
Source: The Crown
“He didn’t trust her because she said she cared—he trusted her because, around her, the voices stopped lying.”
Source: The Whisper Between Us
“He didn't trust reliability, not really. If you got used to someone, it would hurt a billion times more when they left.”
Source: Hurts to Love You
“He didn’t try to kiss her. She probably would have bitten him if he had. This wasn’t nice sex. It wasn’t considerate. This wasn’t the kind of sex lovers had. It was two angry people trying to fuck each other into submission.
And she’d never been more turned on in her life.”
Source: Playing With Forever
“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.”
Source: The Dissident
“He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love.”
Source: Elsewhere
“He didn't understand why everyone fussed about taking clean clothes out of a drawer. Underclothes smelled a lot more interesting after the female wore them.”
Source: Marked in Flesh
“He didn’t utter threats. He delivered promises.”
Source: Dark Protector
“He didn't wait for her to answer. He gripped her by the hips and thrust himself against her, driving his massive black piston deep into her.
I'll never forget the look on her face when he did that. Astonishment, wonder, shock and desire all seemed to rise from deep within her as he filled her with his manhood.
I watched her face, stared into her eyes as Alistair plowed his way into parts of her that were, until that day, untouched.
"Does it feel good?" I whispered, breaking her trance. "Oh Ken," she sighed, her expression turning to what might be regret. "It feels so amazing. I've never felt so full.”
Source: Foreign Affairs: A Hotwife Fantasy
“He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever.”
Source: Much Ado about Nada
“He didn’t want her heart. He wanted her silence, her submission—her undoing.”
“He didn't want her to be a saint. All he wanted was for her to be human (and it never occurred to him that there are times when being human is a privilege).”
Source: Waking Lions
“He didn't want his thing to be spoilt. He would not allow anyone else to have it.”
Source: Julius
“He didn't want it to happen again, so we stopped having adventures. This kept his awesome daughter safe, but, after a while, he forgot that to live is an awfully big adventure.”
Source: Would Like to Meet
“He didn't want just one morning with her, just one dawn breaking across the horizon. He wanted every dawn forever, every night, and the hours in between.”
“He didn't want to be alone. As standoffish as he was, as cloaked in darkness as he was, he was lonely and didn't know how to ask for company.”
Source: A Thousand Broken Pieces
“He didn’t want to be an absentee father. He didn’t want to be like his own father, who thought being a provider was his only obligation to his family.
There was a hell of a lot more to parenthood than providing all the material necessities. Rafael wanted to be there for all the school plays, the soccer games. He wanted to be the one to put money under his kid’s pillow when he lost a tooth and pretend that it was the tooth fairy.
He wanted to be a father. The best father he could be.”
Source: Enticed by His Forgotten Lover
“He didn’t want to be another moment stolen from a thousand. He wanted every sunrise and every crescent moon. He wanted to be the reason for every rare blush, the cause of every breathless sigh.”
Source: We Free the Stars
“He didn’t want to be home and I couldn’t stand mine”
Source: Drowning in Stars
“He didn’t want to do this…
He had come here to hide.”
Source: Because I'm Watching
“He didn't want to give the cartel any time to persuade Emiliana into accepting a more enticing offer. He had reservations about her loyalty and feared she might make a deal without Elpidio's consent.”
Source: Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller
“He didn't want to make himself vulnerable to rejection, preferring that she take that leap first.
Coward.”
Source: Twilight
“He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.”
“He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it.”
Source: In Pursuit of the Green Lion
“He didn't want to put up with things as they were, but the other choice meant that he'd have to be his own mother, and how could you be your own mother when you were only twelve?”
Source: About a Boy
“He didn’t want to see any more reminders of dead friends.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He didn't want to take advantage of her? Fine, she'd take advantage of him.”
Source: Edge of Danger
“He didn't want to think about this, didn't want to feel this, so he thought about the Foxes instead. He clung tight to the memory of their unhesitating friendship and their smiles. He pretended the heartbeat pounding a sick pace in his temples was an Exy ball ricocheting off the court walls. He thought of Wymack holding him up in December and Andrew pushing him down against the bedroom floor. The memories made him weak with grief and loss, but they made him stronger, too. He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real. He'd hit the end of his rope before he wanted to and he hadn't accomplished everything he'd hoped to this year, but he'd done more with his life than he'd ever thought possible. That had to be enough. He traced the outline of a key into his bloody, burnt palm with a shaky finger, closed his eyes, and wished Neil Josten goodbye.”
Source: The King's Men
“He didn't wear a wedding ring, but that meant nothing. Besides, everyone was divorced or unhappy.”
Source: Dead Lions
“He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be. Instead, he preferred to believe in a God who bestowed all people with gifts and abilities and placed them in an imperfect world; only then was faith tested, only then could faith be earned.”
“He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.”
Source: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia
“He didn't care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. All he wanted was to survive, make it to that building, get inside. Live. Gain another day.”
Source: The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)
“He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.”
Source: A Lot Like Love
“He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”