H Quotes
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“He knew he was often laughed at behind his back, and sometimes to his face. So what? He didn’t care! He knew what he knew and he also knew what he didn’t know and that was enough for him. Still, his fame had spread lately and he was continually being bothered by people seeking the ultimate truth, as if such a thing could ever be conceptualized and put into plain words. Besides, it wasn’t up to him to tell people the “ultimate truth”. He could only share his truth, and even that changed from day to day, just like the ongoing cycles of the seasons.”
Source: Tales from the Tao: The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters
“He knew he was overfastidious. But how could one write history with Macaulay so close behind? Fiction or poetry, in the midst of the greatest galaxy of talent in the history of English literature? How could one be a creative scientist, with Lyell and Darwin still alive? Be a statesman, with Disraeli and Gladstone polarizing all the available space?
You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.”
“He knew he was slipping. Blood was dripping down his arm, through his fingers. He'd faced death before, was no stranger to the sensation of knowing this breath, this one breath, could be the last you drew.
But he'd be damned if it would. Not when his woman was watching him with terrified eyes, calling to him, risking her life to save his. He set his teeth, gave his injured arm his weight. Pain swam sickly in his head, into his gut as he reached up to her.
And her hand gripped his, firm and strong.”
Source: Loyalty in Death
“He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.”
Source: Don't Even Think About It
“He knew he was undisciplined, a fuckup with a gift.”
Source: White Swan, Black Swan
“He knew he wasn't going anywhere that didn't take him to her.”
Source: Show No Mercy and Take No Prisoners
“He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.”
Source: The Song of the Lark
“He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.”
“He knew Heaven was at work with this new assignment. Several angels had already gone to the new designated place. Meetings had been made; plans secured. God knew all the connections. The calendar had been marked and the set date to leave was quick to arrive. It appeared this was God’s plan all along.”
Source: This Is My Heaven
“He knew her, and she knew him. He had no idea if the images he saw came from past or future, or both, but he knew her. Their souls were bound, had always been bound, and always would be. They were two with one soul between them, perfectly joined, perfectly fitted.”
Source: The Western King
“He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED.”
Source: The Demon's Lexicon
“He knew himself: how he loved to hold time in aneyance, or try. He could never, of course, because time, like everything else, flowed through his cupped fingers like water, and he knew he could barely stave off anything that was already in motion.”
Source: The Last Ranger
“He knew himself well enough that once she was gone he wouldn’t last regardless. His heart would simply stop beating without her.”
Source: Saved by Darkness
“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will, but if she did not demand only the best from him, it would happen. It might happen. Possibly.”
Source: Wicked Becomes You
“He knew his antenatal history, knew it in every detail, and it was a thing to keep causes well before him. What was his frank judgement of so much of its ugliness, he asked himself, but a part of the cultivation of his humility? What was this so important step he had just taken but the desire for some new history that should, so far as possible, contradict, and even if need be flatly dishonour, the old? If what had come to him wouldn't do he must make something different.”
Source: The Golden Bowl
“He knew his father would not have approved. A man is supposed to be fierce. A man is a hunter and a warrior. A MAN beats his mate because she is smaller and gentler than he is (Okor scowled as he thought this). A man should not be gentle. All other creatures on earth walk in fear of the one called Man. Man does not paint faces on little girls' dolls, and he does not rescue drowning insects - yet I knowthese things to be right and good - for I am different. I am still a man, but I am the Strange One - that is what I am.
Okor wept.”
Source: The Strange One
“He knew his vampire 'sisters' would drain the girls until they were nearly dead, then feed them some of their own blood. That’s when the turning would start - as vampire and human blood mixed - and the parched agony of the Dark Kiss began.”
Source: Longinus The Vampire: Redemption
“He knew how he wanted to kiss her. Forcefully, demandingly, with everything he had, in a way that would require her wholehearted response.
But he knew how he should kiss her.
Gently. Softly. Irreproachably.”
Source: A Duke for All Seasons
“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man”
Source: Call for the Dead
“He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.”
Source: Lion of Babylon
“He knew how often I needed to travel to be sane, what my favorite places were, which seat I would choose in a restaurant, which songs I listened to depending on my mood, how I looked when I was hungry, how much sugar I would like in my coffee, what hurt me and what would fix it, when I craved a hug and how tight should that be, how to make out my mood from my voice and how fast my heart would beat if I was asked to address a gathering of five hundred people.”
Source: Lost Love Late Love
“He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.”
Source: The Magician's Elephant
“He knew how to find time to study and to write, to earn his living and to wander idly through the streets he loved; whereas we, who staggered from laziness to frantic activity and back again, wasted our time trying to decide whether we were lazy or industrious”
Source: The Little Virtues
“He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. And after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. He knew pain.”
“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”
“He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.”
“He knew I was gay for ages," he said, his voice soft. "We both did. Since we were, like, ten or eleven, maybe. As soon as we understood what gay was, we knew that's what I was. We... We used to kiss sometimes, when we were kids. When we were alone. Just little childish kisses, little pecks on the lips because we thought it was fun. We were always... really affectionate with each other. We'd cuddle and... we were kind to each other, rather than nasty like most children. I think we were so caught up in each other that we just... missed all the heteronormative propaganda that's thrust at you when you're that age. We didn't really realize it was weird until - yeah, until we were ten or eleven. But that didn't really stop us. I guess... I guess I always felt like it was more romantic than Aled did. Aled always just treated it like it was something that friends did rather than boyfriends. Aled... he's always been weird. He doesn't care what people think. He doesn't even, like, register the social norms... he's just caught up in his own little world.”
Source: Radio Silence
“He knew I was unworthy. He knew I was
the worst of sinners.
And yet I dared to come before Him.”
Source: Bound and Determined
“He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“He knew immediately what he should cook for Maura, the journey he would take her on.
They could make them together--- varenyky. Thin-skinned dumplings bursting with lightly sugared sour cherries, their warm, dark juice flooding your mouth. Or the cheese kind--- soft, sweet kernels of curd luxuriating in a pool of liquid butter. The meat ones, his dad's take on pelmeni, beef and pork and black pepper and onion, boiled first and then pan-fried, brown and crispy, doused in a poultice of white vinegar and sinus-clearing Russian mustard and thick sour cream.
Hell, he'd cook all three.”
Source: Aftertaste
“He knew in that moment that falling in love with her would destroy him, and so he decided at once that he would do his damnedest to despise her.”
Source: The Suns of Anarchy
“He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“He knew it was a horrible time, but seeing her kicked his heart into overdrive.”
Source: Afraid to Fall
“He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.”
“He knew
It was time
Time to try again....”
“He knew it was too late to turn back and brusquely reminded himself he was no child, now, to be frightened of his own fancies.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”
Source: North of Beautiful
“He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.”
Source: Great Expectations
“He knew nothing and learned everything because no one else would do it for him”
Source: Kismat Connection: A Heartwarming Friends to Lovers YA Contemporary Romance
“He knew nothing would ever be the same from that moment on. He hoped he was wrong.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He knew now that he could be harmed. He knew now that he was vulnerable. No joy would be the same for Borne. No playfulness, either. Because behind it would be this certain knowledge: that he could die.”
Source: Borne
“He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
Source: Happy Death
“He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.”
Source: The Return of the King
“He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“He knew once he stepped into that kind of environment, again, the options would be limited. He’d no longer have the freedom or control to make any important decisions. He’d be just another pawn to be used on the chessboard by the white shirt bosses, who would likely be making their decisions from a safe distant location and passing them along down the totem pole. It was just how his job worked.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.”
“He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.”
Source: The Enemy Series
“He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .”
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
Source: The Road