H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe.”
Source: Fearless Magic
“He forces himself to meet Manny’s gaze. “I’m sorry I can’t stay.”
“OK. Go get some sleep then.” He doesn’t look happy about it, that cute little crease cutting into the edge of each eyebrow. “Come back tomorrow. You promised.”
“I did.” Chant says, feeling faint. The air between them is warmer than the balmy night, their little private bubble back again, keeping the world outside.”
Source: Fresh Ink - Mild Spice Edition
“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.”
“He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered.”
“He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.”
Source: The Night Circus
“He forgot that anybody was there, and, sobbing, hid his face in his great hands.”
Source: The Gates Ajar or Our Loved Ones in Heaven
“He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time”
“He fought alongside a royalist army against the usurpers during the Siege of Colchester and commanded those besieged in the city. He distinguished himself through his bravery.”
Source: Makers of America: A Personal Family History
“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”
Source: Watership Down
“He fought for his country, but mostly he fought for the people in his country so they had freedom to make choices. He just hoped they'd be good ones.”
Source: Lethal Game
“He fought with a desire to kiss her again, even tenderly, and began to tell her that she was being unwise, but before he got really started at this handsome project, she was in his arms again, and whispering something that he had to accept, since it was wrapped up in a kiss.”
Source: First Blood
“He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.”
“He found a few “old-timers” who believed wholly in the program and who encouraged him to dismiss the great majority of people who fell through the cracks. They just weren’t ready to stop, he was reassured.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:
This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.
Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits
This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.”
Source: Complete short stories
“He found a new way to cover up his bad breath. He holds up his arms.”
“He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.”
Source: Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light
“He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.”
Source: Dark Legend: Number 8 in series
“He found all of this very cool, jumping right in to join me as we got down to the serious business of Chinese cuisine.”
Source: My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China
“He found comfort in a world where all the characters who had been smart children grew up to be really fascinating, unique adults.”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“He found Granny on the porch, asleep. Her chin sat on her chest, rising and falling with her breath. He gathered her up in his arms, light as a girl, and carried her inside to her room. He covered her in her old handed-down quilt. The outer layers were burnished to a luster over decades of sleeping flesh, the inner batting composed of older blankets still. He tucked it under her feet, her elbows and shoulders, and went out into the den and opened the door of the wood stove. A mouth of red coals. He added two lengths of the seasoned white oak they kept stacked on the porch, hot-burning wood for cold nights, and stoked it to a fury before stepping outside.”
Source: Gods of Howl Mountain
“He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.”
Source: Station Eleven
“He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is.”
Source: The Patrick Melrose Novels
“He found her weakness without even trying- a man whose confidence outweighed his arrogance was a dangerous creature indeed.”
Source: The Devil and the Heiress
“He found himself filling up with a vague, fluttery nervousness. It was the way he felt in the last days before starting a new book, when he understood that the inevitable could not be put off much longer, that he would soon be out on the wire again, clutching his balance-pole and riding his stupid little unicycle.”
Source: Desperation
“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on every surface. It was a cozy room, for all that ; it smelled of warm, rich words and very deep thoughts.”
Source: Midnight for Charlie Bone
“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”
Source: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
“He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be that indefinable something that sent hungry hearts roving, longing and searching for something, they knew not what, and yet could not give up the quest.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“He found himself pacing, stoopshouldered, up and down the tiny limits of his cabin, and checked himself furiously. The iron-nerved captain of his dreams would not allow himself to work himself into this sort of fever, even though his professional reputation was to be at stake in four hours' time. He must show the ship that he, too, could face uncertainty with indifference.”
Source: Beat to Quarters
“He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“He found himself staring into a pair of amber eyes that tilted at the outer corners in a catlike slant. For a moment he couldn't breathe, couldn't think, while all his senses struggled to take her in.
He had never seen anything like her.
She was younger than he had expected, with a fair complexion and auburn hair that looked too heavy for its pins. A set of wide, pronounced cheekbones and a narrow jaw imparted an exquisite feline triangularity to her features. The curves of her lips were so full that even when she pressed them together tightly, as she was doing now, they still looked soft. Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential.”
Source: Cold-Hearted Rake
“He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.”
Source: The Long Walk
“He found himself thinking about his childhood.
"Why do you drink so much, Maestro?"
"This is not a music question."
"Are you sad, Maestro?"
"Again, not a music question."
"I am sad sometimes, Maestro."
"Practice more. Speak less. You'll be happier."
"Yes, Maestro."
Everyone joins a band in this life.
Sometimes, they are the wrong ones.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well.”
“He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.”
Source: Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. He began to say to himself: ‘Perhaps I shall cross the River myself one day.’ To which the other half of his mind always replied: 'Not yet.”
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.”
Source: The Secret Chord
“He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.”
Source: Ulysses
“He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.”
“He found it remarkable that humans could persuade themselves to keep going under almost any circumstances and that they were very willing to be joyful and courageous. It was a shame so many of them were so stupid.”
Source: The Little Snake
“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted”
“He found it very difficult to acknowledge that the pattern of false idealization, ambivalence, rejection and abandonment was set up inside himself and projected onto every woman het met.”
Source: Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
“He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)”
“He found Levon in the second studio on the right, talking with a delectable pastry of a girl standing at the top of a ladder. She was wearing a very short plaid skirt that made her look like a naughty Catholic schoolgirl. She reminded him of a cannoli, a voluptuous vanilla cream filling stuffed into a soft golden crust.”
Source: The Color of Light
“He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“He found me crying,
He crew too,
we both crode”