H Quotes
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“He had told Tristan once that they all had the exact curses they deserved. He understood his own, that he felt everything because he wanted terribly, with all of his being, to feel nothing. Because to feel nothing would be to finally no longer feel pain.”
Source: The Atlas Paradox
“He had too much respect for her, even though the woman lying in the room next to him tonight was no longer his wife but a broken mould of the once-upon-a-time Rosie.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.”
“He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.”
Source: Lipstick & Bolsheviks
“He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.
That was, he supposed, human nature.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“He had tried. Not to ring her, but to not ring her. He had tried not to think about her. He had tried not to pursue her.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“He had tried so hard that day. Andrei looked toward the smoke, searching for a face, and found none.
He knew there was no reward for his life. It would continue to be excruciating for him to venture into the world with stakes and yet receive no friendly consolation. No audience. There were only things and him. The state of aloneness was the condition comets came with. Oh, what a hand could do! A friend! A touch on the shoulder! But this loud torment of silence would serve as the rhythm of a much larger song that played in him—the tune of ceaseless risk. The song commences at the first streak of undertaking. And the lyrics of progress are never congratulated. How could others toast to a victory they did not understand? That they could not see?”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“He had tried to remember the only advice his father ever gave him about "the birds and the bees", a odd concept to Tom's mind as surely these two species never mated with each other.”
Source: Losing our Marbles?
“He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)
“He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.”
Source: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
“He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“He had very few doubts, and when the facts contradicted his views on life, he shut his eyes in disapproval.”
Source: The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed that ... being willing to fight for his country and the liberty it represented, would make some small difference. ... His idealism was one of the casualties of the carnage [of Verdun].”
Source: The Dream of Scipio
“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“He had walked the paths of the mind and the warp for long enough to know that reality was just a choice of which lie to believe.”
“He had walked with those who could crack the world like eggs.”
Source: Circe
“He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.”
Source: Sapphique
“He had wanted to be a soldier and was well suited to be one. But a soldier is a pawn in the hands of the ruler and the rulers of his land were idle and self-serving persons, he had started to convince himself now”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“He had wanted to go to the Academy and become a Shadowhunter, to learn more about his own life and remember everything he had lost, to become someone stronger and better.
Except that you did not become someone stronger and better by only thinking about yourself.”
Source: Bitter of Tongue
“He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.
A mindful of thoughts.
Like a simple puzzle, he put them together.”
“He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
“He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.”
“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”
Source: Revolutionary Road
“He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.”
“He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.”
“He had wrought them up to a pitch of dangerous passion, and they were ripe for any violence to which he urged them. If he had failed with the windmill, at least he was now master of the wind.”
Source: Scaramouche
“He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“He hadn't birthed a baby, he didn't know, how Elizabeth had torn out of her, left her gaping, bloody, raw, how every creation is an act of destruction, how the bite was borne out of desire to show Elizabeth how deep her love for her ran, how vast, how endless.”
“He hadn't changed in one giant leap, but across a million little steps.”
Source: Oathbringer
“He hadn’t come to see her. He’d arrived by mistake and wanted to get far away without further ado. Once upon a time, they’d shared a rare, special love. She remembered it and regretted losing it, even if he didn’t.”
Source: One Night with the Groom
“He hadn’t done anything like that in so long, it felt foreign and so comfortingly familiar at the same time. Like coming back to a place you loved after a lifetime and realizing it was still waiting for you with open arms, unchanged and welcoming.”
Source: Dream
“He hadn’t eaten for a very long time, and he was in the mood to find out what a falcon tasted like.”
Source: Lionheart
“He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.”
Source: The Water Museum
“He hadn’t factored in her being hundreds of miles away from home with no family or friends. I’ve been a complete wanker, he chastised himself. “Bloody hell, I hadn’t taken that into account. Maybe Kat’s right,” he remarked, fixated on the TV.”
Source: Love Auction II: Love Designs
“he hadn’t killed or shagged even one single person in front of me—which I felt was a rather good indication of his superior character.”
Source: Fear the Heart
“He hadn’t landed on the battlefield to save Christina, at least not entirely. He’d landed there because it was meant to be – because his destiny lay with a bonny woman who would capture his heart and show him honor and respect on a uniquely deep level that had been lost in the twenty-first century.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Christmas
“He hadn’t left, and apparently, Seth was a cuddler.”
Source: Pure
“He hadn't left any of the stretches that he'd done of me. But he did leave a sketch of my rocking chair. It was perfect. A rocking chair against the bare walls of my room. He'd captured the afternoon light streaming into the room, the way the shadows fell on the chair and gave it depth and made it appear as if it was something more than an inanimate object. There was something sad and solitary about the sketch and I wondered if that's the way he saw the world or if that's the way he saw my world.
I starred at the sketch for a long time. It scared me. Because there was something true about it.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“He hadn't planned on crying, but he seemed to understand that there are times in a man's life when he can do nothing else.”
Source: The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories
“He hadn't realized until the real Gaunt materialized how far his memories had strayed from the original.”
Source: In Memoriam
“He hadn't really rejected her, had he?
Or maybe she was reading into her memory of the moment what she wanted to see.
Probably.
Then again, he'd been hard. And he;s looked at her like he wanted to eat her. And she was totally game to be his buffet.”
Source: Hard as Steel
“He hadn't said a word, but his presence was a hum in the air. Exactly like the breathing of a sleeping dragon in a fairy tale.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“He hadn’t said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had only been, “You’re wearing my socks.”
Source: Room 42
“He hadn't said Tremaine was crazy either. He gave the impression that he was used to being pulled out of a sound sleep to humor people in the middle of a cold night... "Maybe that's why I love him," Tremaine thought, lifting an ironic brow at herself. Then she processed that thought. "I do what?”
Source: The Gate of Gods
“He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.”
Source: A Banquet Of Crumbs
“He hadn't set foot in the Tower since his apprenticeship days, but Antain felt it was high time to visit the Sisters, who had been, for him, a sort of short-term family----albeit odd, standoffish, and, admittedly, murderous. Still. Family is family...”
Source: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“He hadn't spent a lifetime pushing women away only to be taken down by a piece of pumpkin pie.”
Source: Defying the Odds
“He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole. Even then she doubted if he would have minded much if she'd fallen into the pothole, except that it would have slowed them down.”
Source: City of Glass
“He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.”
Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
“He hadn’t struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he’d called out to Jesus when he’d been deep inside her.”
Source: Playing the Player