H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“He must have been like a thin brown skeleton autumn leaf dancing eternally before the wind; but in truth it was he that was the wind.”
Source: What Paul Meant
“He must have been one of those very special people, beloved of the gods, for whom time is elastic and can always be stretched out to play with a child.”
Source: Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
“He must have been someone I trusted at one time."
"But you don't now?"
"I can't. Not until I remember how I ended up so badly wounded where you found me. You've seen how strong I am, Susan. How fast I can move. Do you really think an enemy could have gotten the jump on me without a little assistance?"
She hadn't thought of it like that. It was a valid point. "No. I'm still hoping he's a friend though. You need someone you can trust."
Smiling, he touched her cheek. "I already have someone I trust. You."
She clasped his wrists and turned her head, pressing a kiss to his palm. "Flirt."
He winked. "Just wait until I confirm I'm not married. Then I'll take flirting to a whole new level."
"Hell yes, you will," she declared.
He laughed.”
Source: Awaken the Darkness
“He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in the day's agenda, and arriving punctually at their destination, that the land beyond the car had been no more than a wash of one green, and a backdrop of one hill. Life was very different when you walked through it.”
“He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted.”
Source: City on Fire
“He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.”
“He must have forgotten that in the mind of a boy, a warning isn't much different from an invitation.”
“He must have gotten all that knowledge from the newspapers. I don't see the point, collecting all that knowledge others have already discovered.”
Source: Nothing
“He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.”
Source: Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel
“He must have heard her, because he finally stood and turned with an automatic smile before registering the sight of her. His eyes widened as he absorbed the way she looked, his mouth slightly ajar. He seemed immobilized, struggling anf failing to find his voice.
"You're... Indescribablly beautiful," he finally whispered. "Truly."
He was in love with her, she realized with sudden force.”
Source: Every Breath
“He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.”
“He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
“He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.”
“He must have laughed at me
every single night,
For I always missed the one
who was never mine.”
“He must have lit up the sky that day on the mountain, what we call the transfiguration.
Jesus on the mountaintop unveiled a foretaste of heaven and glory. Light filled him so that the witnesses remarked on a hue of white that was whiter than any shade possible.
It was a sci-fi transportation to another dimension and while Peter and John were still reeling, Moses and Elijah showed up.
It broke the barrier between heaven and earth for Jesus was the one who could belong to both at the same time. A citizen of heaven, a citizen of earth.”
Source: Healing, Finding Truth Among the Mysteries
“He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”
Source: The Book Thief
“He must have said something because Baba pokes his shoulder and says, "Don't you know -- that's the thing -- everyone is not just good. Everyone is *trying* to be good. And everyone feels this way sometimes, that they are not good, and not good at trying either.”
Source: A Place for Us
“He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.”
Source: Wickedly Charming
“He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.”
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killing me was one of those things—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al. I open my eyes, and stare at the pieces of chair I can faintly see on the pavement below. For the first time I feel like I understand Al. I am tired of being Tris. I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”
Source: Insurgent
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al.”
Source: Insurgent
“He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.”
Source: Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)
“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
“He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.”
“He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.”
“He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood
“He must needs go that the devil drives.”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”
“He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.”
Source: Splinters
“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.”
Source: John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers
“He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.”
“He must remember that women were curious creatures, addicted to eccentricities of vision, allowing emotional influences to deflect the light of reason. There was no prevailing with them by hard common sense alone. It provoked their hostility.”
Source: The Black Swan
“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes a pot...”
Source: The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
“He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him. No, not a fair fight. He was invisible now. Gollum had no sword. Gollum had not actually threatened to kill him, or tried to yet. And he was miserable, alone, lost. A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering.”
Source: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“He must think.. that I’m dumb and innocent. But I’ve shown who I really am.. many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me… but in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen.. If I could keep today’s happiness… I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.”
“He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”
Source: Zeitoun
“He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.”
“He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?”
Source: True Romance
“He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon,”
he said with admirable humbleness when Timmie cracked it open. Only I could pick up the
slight edge to his voice as he went on. “I can only say that it was caused by my natural
affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I’ll be shagging her tonight, you can
imagine how I’d be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling.”
“You schmuck!” I burst as Timmie’s jaw dropped. “The only thing you’ll be shagging
tonight is yourself!”
“You wanted sincerity,” he countered. “Well, luv, I was sincere.”
“He muttered to himself, "You are the love that defied all reason," he admitted, his words heavy with the weight of truth. "My heart surrendered before I had a chance to resist.”
Source: The Legend of Tilsim Hoshruba
“He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.”
“He narrowed his gaze and looked down at the ground, spotting a good sized rock, he picked it up and bounced the weight in his hand, looking back at the trees. Then, without ceremony, flung it into their shadows. The reaction was immediate.
Branches twisted, limbs snapped forward like claws, snatching at the stone with frantic hunger. The trees fought each other, scraping and screeching in dry, fibrous snarls. A savage ballet of predators without prey.
A curl of grim satisfaction touched his mouth.
'Nasty little fuckers, just like everything else in this place.'
And if the trees were this alive… the sprites inside them would be worse”
Source: Make-Believe
“He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”
Source: The poetical works of John Keats
“He needed a drink. Or perhaps a lobotomy. Honestly, either would do”
Source: Immortal Consequences
“He needed a new soul to love him, to remind him that humanity resided in him still. I was providing him a service by giving my soul to him in love." -- Hilar”
Source: The Other Way
“He needed a stiff drink. With a side of straightjacket.”
Source: In diesem Moment
“He needed a woman. Bad.”
Source: Complete Mackenzie Collection
“He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.”
Source: Fair Game