H Quotes
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“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise ailments that were like artefacts passed down the family, inarguable proofs of the theory that since human beings first stood upright, nothing was ever really cured.”
Source: Time of the Child
“He had been thinking about how easy it was to stay alive now that he didn't care about being alive anymore.”
Source: Ceremony
“He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.”
“He had been through a hundred heartbreaks, but he found himself afraid when he thought of Alexander Lightwood breaking his heart. He did not know how this boy with the messy black hair and the worried blue eyes, with his steady hands and rare sweet smile that was less rare in Magnus's presence, had acquired such power over him.”
Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
“He had been through hell and survived, and his reward had come in the form of a woman who could bend but not break, challenge but not conform, submit but not surrender. Naiya was his. Totally, utterly, and irrevocably. And he would never let her go.”
Source: Chaos Bound
“He had been thrown into the dungeon after refusing to accept that ‘bridegroom’ was no longer an acceptable term to call a groom. Needless to say, he had been there quite a long time.”
Source: The Satyrist...And Other Scintillating Treats
“He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
“He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”
“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. She had been distant and closed away, a princess in a tower, and his imagination’s work had been all to make her present, all of her, to his mind and senses, the quickness of her and the mystery, the whiteness of her, which was part of her extreme magnetism, and the green look of those piercing or occluded eyes. Her presence had been unimaginable, or more strictly, only to be imagined. Yet here she was, and he was engaged in observing the ways in which she resembled, or differed from, the woman he dreamed, or reached for in sleep, or would fight for.”
“He had been willing to die because he refused to take a life.
But me, I contemplated shooting everyone.”
Source: Reboot
“He had been young, and she had been young. They had been young together. Why was it so hard to see that? How close generations were. That children and their parents were companions through life.”
Source: This Time Tomorrow
“He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes.”
Source: The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
“He had better beware our wrath, great man though he is. What is he doing in his fury but insulting senseless clay?”
Source: The Iliad
“He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!”
“He had big plans for you," I said with tears rolling down my face. "That's why it took so long." Sir Alistair stopped and looked back, looking with affection at Marco, Yipes, and me. "We all play our part. Some roles just dray on a little more than others.”
Source: Stargazer
“He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.”
“He had broken a union ruling which was a basic law. In his opinion it was a foolish ruling, but nonetheless . . . vengeance is mine, sayeth the Extraterrestrial Repairmen’s Union, Martian Branch. Wow, how he hated the bastards; his hatred had warped his life and he recognized that—and he did nothing about it: he wanted it to warp him. He wanted to keep on hating them, the vast monolithic structure, wherever it existed.
They had caught him for giving socialized repair.”
Source: Martian Time-Slip
“He had brought his bone saw in its leather case. And his white linen smock, the one he used to save his clothes when he had dirty work in store, and would have Li Chang wash and bleach after. An amputation would be the dirtiest work there was. He remembered the smocks the surgeons wore, layer on layer of red, dried blood darker under fresh red splashes, with the occasional white splinter of bone.
Joshua prayed as he rode, prayed hard and desperately, prayed that the smock in his bag would be clean and white when he turned homeward.”
Source: What Heals the Heart
“He had brought home to her, and always by remarks that were really quite soundless, the conception, hitherto ungrapsed, of some complete use of her wealth itself, some use of it as a counter-move to fate.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.”
“He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.”
“He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”
Source: madame bovary
“He had ceased to be interested in anyone but himself.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“He had changed. And not for the good. He was using strong language - filthy in her estimation - and had become totally immersed in the restoration of the motorcycle.”
Source: As Evil Does
“He had changed, and that was what he wasn't proud of.”
Source: A Tempest of Tea
“He had chosen her, she was his wife, she would do. The discovery he made was that the sensation of owning a wife, and a house, and a staff of servants, was a pleasurable one; that to order and be obeyed in his own home, to know he was master here as well as in his cafés, to entertain guests and be aware of their covetous glances at his goods, and his woman, was a thrill of keen intensity new and extremely satisfying.”
Source: Julius
“He had come for her. He had promised everything was going to be okay, and he had come for her, and he had looked so crazy-sexy. No, monstrous. No, sexy. Oh damn.”
Source: Storm's Heart
“He had come from the humblest of backgrounds, born in a cottage he had built with his own hands”
Source: Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
“He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.”
Source: The Rum Diary: A Novel
“He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep”
Source: Doctor Sleep
“He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.”
Source: Call of The Wild, White Fang
“He had come to realize that it was when you were dying that people most wanted things from you - they wanted you to remember, they wanted reassurance, they wanted forgiveness. They wanted acknowledgment and redemption; they wanted you to make them feel better - about the fact that you were leaving while they remained; about the fact that they hated you for leaving them and dreaded it, too; about the fact that your death was reminding them of their own inevitable one; about the fact that they were so uncomfortable that they didn't know what to say.”
Source: To Paradise
“He had come to see that people were blind to tragedy till they experienced it firsthand, and that they were willing to risk the unknown if it meant they could make money in the interim. This was the case not just with small Indian markets, with their reluctance to secure themselves, but with the U.S. as well: Airlines had known for years about the danger of hijackings, but had lobbied against security because it cost time and money to process passengers. Better to let a plane be occasionally hurled off track, the heads of the airlines reasoned, than to hemorrhage money in the terminals.”
Source: The Association of Small Bombs
“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
Source: Stoner
“He had complicated our task of being pleasant dinner companions by mentioning famine, something that Americans had never known. The word could only conjure otherworldly landscapes of the skeletal dead, which was not the spectral image we wanted to present, for what one should never do was to require other people to imagine they were just like one of us. Spiritual teleportation unsettled most people, who, if they thought of others at all, preferred to think that others were just like them or could be just like them.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“He had condemned Sam for opening up to him and hadn’t even stopped himself long enough to ask why she would do so.”
Source: Acid Rain
“He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that.”
Source: The Candle in the Wind
“He had conquered the most difficult and dangerous part of his plan, but there was something he couldn’t have planned for.
Me.”
Source: Death on the Causeway
“He had convinced himself of a ‘truth’, mostly because it was able to be seen. To see something meant that it was probable, and to consider something probable meant that it was believable.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Extraction
“He had counted on having decades in which to learn how to love her again.”
Source: In Memoriam
“He had created a son—not in a conventional manner, nor one a DNA test would confirm, but certainly in the most important sense. He wondered where the boy was now and what he was doing, the product of biological alchemy and the man’s greatest and most secret success.”
“He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language of condolence, no skill at social small talk; his metier was business and politics. And yet, when his hostess had introduced them and left, he found himself still holding the hand he had kissed, looking into soft brown eyes that drowned his soul. And without further thought or hesitation had said, 'God help me, I am in love with you.”
Source: Lord John and the Private Matter
“He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and in the things she said, an intelligence and a boldness that belied her quiet demeanor.”
Source: The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest
“He had decades left in this second life. He didn't have to fill them with purpose - he could waste them doing nothing.”
Source: Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife
“He had decided that if he ever returned to his old job he would create a special level of hell, an enormous inescapable shop of attractive but useless and overpriced items that the damned would wander for eternity in the cold delusion that this was what they wanted. And then Nerys had taken him to IKEA and Clovenhoof realised the humans had once again beaten him to it.”
Source: Clovenhoof
“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.”
“He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.”
Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)
“He had destroyed and shattered my love only to conquer it again.”
Source: Conquer Your Love