H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.”
Source: The Unbound
“He leans in to kiss her, but she pulls back. "Not right now! This is beatdown time, not happy time.”
Source: Chosen
“He leans me back against his chest and we are both in complete and utter bliss, but me especially, because the wind and snow outside are unbearably cold. In fact, I called Alex on the way over to moan that I was freezing to death. And now here he is, warming me up with his body and the hot water, his arms wrapped around me. I feel like I’m in an invincible, impregnable wigwam of tenderness and affection. I am at peace, I am in ecstasy, I am in pleasure, I am in healing, I am in purging, I am in love...”
Source: Monogamy Book One. Lover
“He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.”
“He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers. ‘Me? Me?”
Source: Beloved
“He leans over the bed and peers at the lump in Annabel's arms.
"When do her eyes open?"
"I didn't give birth to a kitten, Richard. Her eyes have already opened. She's asleep.”
Source: Model Misfit
“He leans towards me for a kiss and our mouths fuse. I explode. I'm all over him, absorbing his warmth and the beat of his heart. It's like he knows my pain, and he's trying to erase it. It's like he's bringing me back to life with every brush of our lips.”
Source: Broken Heart
“He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“He leaped to his feet, grabbed her, and spun her to face him. "No more bullshit, Sin. Feel what you've done." He took her hand and pressed it to her chest, where her heart was pounding painfully fast. So was his. "Let yourself feel something for someone else." ~Con”
“He leapt off Deception Pass Bridge with his arms spread as if he were an eagle, only to be spared to become an angel of death.”
Source: Save Them All: A Novel
“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar
“He learned from advertising that poor people were fiercely brand conscious. They wasted their money on advertised products because they were deathly afraid of wasting their money.”
Source: White Palace
“He learned how to forget, and forgetting brought him relief.”
Source: Primeval and Other Times
“He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.”
Source: Triple Agent, Double Cross
“He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
Source: DUNE
“He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.”
Source: East of Eden
“He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“He learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't tHe learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that.- it didn't work. When is sad alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing has changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone, and the self pity had accomplished nothing. - From Hatchet”
“He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.”
Source: The History of Love
“He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.”
“He learns me by layers without a single touch.”
“He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the same man who invented both an early kind of computer and the cow catcher, a device attached to the front of locomotives to clear debris from train tracks. He learns that Babbage once wrote to Alfred Tennyson to correct two lines from one of Tennyson's poems, which Babbage felt lacked scientific accuracy. This, thinks Jonas, tells you everything you need to know about both the man and the invention of forms.”
Source: The Book of Jonas
“He leaves me alone in my grief because I've made it so hard for him to console me.”
Source: All Your Perfects
“He leaves the flat and I don’t see him for two days.”
Source: Postscript
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in the scent of the acacia blossom, making themselves visible only to the young in order to entrap them in otherworldly world.”
Source: The Wasted Vigil
“He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.”
“He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.”
“He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.”
“He leered at Auntie and asked if she’d show him which body parts were Indian. She throat-punched him. While he was gulping for air, my aunt told him he just experienced a real Indian fist and she had another if he wanted to see that one too.”
Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter
“He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“He left, and I was stuck pondering life’s mysteries in a broom closet.”
Source: Match Me If You Can
“He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“He left her and looked round for his glass again. Meanwhile, he said to himself in a quoting voice: "We are minor in everything but our passions."
"Wherever did you read that?"
"Nowhere: I woke up and heard myself saying it, one night."
"How pompous you were in the night. I'm so glad I was asleep.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“He left her there —
amid doubt and fear,
amid love and incomprehension,
amid pain and hope.”
Source: The Most Precious Gift: A myth of gods and humans
“He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.”
Source: Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book
“He left home, roamed the streets, hid in garbage containers (which at the time were large enough to hold ten people), played his instrument, and raped the women who came to listen.”
Source: Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
“He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“He left me millions of time, but I am holding him with every breath with same madness”
“He left sticky notes on mirrors: “Reminder: You are not a joke. You are the structure that allows the joke to exist.”
Source: Entropy in Love and Other Errors: Absurdist Short Stories about Meaning, Glitches, and Goodbyes
“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.”
“He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.”
Source: American Gods
“He left the hearing feeling liberated, lighter, and more transparent.”
Source: The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
“He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles”
Source: Cry Wolf
“He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
“He left the room silently, and it was not quite clear whether it was the beginning of a row or not. Probably he would decide later, depending on whether there was a practical advantage to be had in discord.”
Source: NW
“He left us—
like broken toys
with sharp edges
and no purpose.
Now we stitch sails
from the skin of forgotten boys.
We sharpen our grief on coral reefs
and spit prayers into bottles
no one will open.”
Source: Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse
“He left without saying good-bye to the crystal merchant. He didn’t want to cry with the other people there. He was going to miss the place and all the good things he had learned. He was more confident in himself, thought, and felt as though he could conquer the world.”
Source: The Alchemist