H Quotes
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“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.”
Source: Narcopolis
“He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.”
Source: Blood Trail
“He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.”
“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”
Source: Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust
“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.”
Source: This Crooked Way
“He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.”
“He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story”
Source: Bone Man's Daughters
“He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.”
“He read the letter, and faintly exclaimed "Dear me!"
"You may well say Dear me!" rejoined Mrs Wilfer, in a deep tone. Upon which encouragement he said it again, though scarcely with the success he had expected; for the scornful lady then remarked, with extreme bitterness: "You said that before.”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“He read up on Jillian Abernathy, the acid attack, and Elysium.
Then he looked up the definition of the word.
ELYSIUM: ANY PLACE OR CONDITION OF IDEAL BLISS OR COMPLETE HAPPINESS, PARADISE.
Good name for a spa, he thought. Then he read the second definition.
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, A PLACE ASSIGNED TO VIRTUOUS PEOPLE AFTER DEATH.”
Source: The Look of Love
“He read vividly.”
“He read what he could find—the distilled knowledge of hundreds of experts. He couldn’t follow all the physiology. The body had evolved to feel fear, hope, thrill, and peace in the presence of certain semi-ordered vibrations; no one knew why. It made no sense that a few staggered chords could make the brain love an unmet stranger or grieve for friends who hadn’t died. Nobody could say why Barber moved listeners and Babbitt didn’t, or whether an infant might be raised to weep at Carter. But all the experts agreed that waves of compressed air falling on the eardrum touched off chain reactions that flooded the body in signals and even changed the expression of genes.”
Source: Orfeo
“He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.”
Source: Strange the Dreamer
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.”
Source: The Night Circus
“He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.”
“He reads on: 'In every corner of this community, somebody is attempting something new. For this, they've had their share of tragedies.'
Tom nods. Of course they have. They had to have. That's how invention works. Failures are guaranteed.
Doesn't Malorie understand that? Doesn't she get that you can wear a blindfold your entire life, but all you're doing is perpetuating the lie that you cannot see?”
Source: Malorie
“He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.”
Source: Infected Connection
“He realised how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
Source: 1984
“He realised how poor he was. Yet he had seen wealth, so close by, in lanes filled with commerce, in homes like palaces. The gulf between wealth and poverty was it seemed a condition of every society.”
Source: A Tudor Turk
“He realised that he was probably unwell in some way, but it did not seem to be a state of ill health about which anything could be done; you could not go to the doctor and say that you didn't know what season it was.”
Source: Passing On
“He realised that the destruction of the forest symbolised the predicament of the entire continent. In a few fleeting decades, Africa had been over taken by its own inherent savagery. The checks that had been placed on it by a century of colonialism had been struck off. Chains perhaps those checks had been, but once freed of them, the peoples of Africa were rushing headlong, with almost suicidal abandon, towards their own destruction.”
Source: A Time to Die
“He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.”
“He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him”
Source: Against the Grain: (À rebours)
“He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.”
Source: An Unforgivable Secret
“He realized it was the first of January, the day many people began the new year with a thorough cleaning. A time for "Out with the old, in with the new."
Could Richard do the same to his heart, his ways? He hoped so, God in heaven, give me strength. Help me become a better man.”
Source: A Castaway in Cornwall
“He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!”
“He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.”
“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence— they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all. And death was a kind of gesture, forever withholding water from the traveler vainly seeking to slake his thirst. But for the others, it was the fatal and tender gesture that erases and denies, smiling at gratitude as at rebellion.”
Source: A Happy Death
“He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.”
Source: Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost
“He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”
“He realized that as much as he wanted his Leopard to settle and feel contentment, claiming Ania Dover was really for himself. For him. He needed her. He was already addicted to her smile. To her brightness. But it was the way she brought peace to him that he needed. Once he felt that. He knew he couldn't live without it.”
Source: Leopard's Wrath
“He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.”
Source: Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
“He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“He realized that his past life, his past lonely life, hadn’t been good but perfect. For every single event in that life had pushed him unwaveringly closer and closer to her. Every failure, every crumbling relationship, every breakup in the cold rain or amidst hot tears—everything had been to place him at that diner two weeks ago. To bring him to the now—sleeping on her bed, this stunning, intelligent woman next to him. All his life, he had dreamt of her, either consciously or subconsciously, and this woman had materialized in the flesh. Looking back, he wondered if the plan had been too perfect for it to be mere coincidence. Fate or whatever could substitute for fate had slowly moved him toward her.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.”
“He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on each other, to avoid socializing to interact only through the state and to avoid unsanctioned meetings.”
Source: The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?
“He realized the bridge wasn’t a product; it was an act. Its worth wasn’t in its finish, but in the choice to build it, step-by-step, even while the water rushed below.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“He realized, when he was back in his room, that they hadn't even kissed. He also realized, with horror, that he regretted that.”
“He realized, with some despair, that everything would now remind him of her. The very sun and moon, the shifting of lightness and dark.”
Source: This Woven Kingdom
“He realized, you see, that he was stupid enough to fall in love with a woman he never saw with his eyes, but that's okay, my dear, because the heart doesn't need eyes to fall in love.”
Source: The Life I Now Live
“He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.”
“He realizes finally that the boy he's been watching snap his board into the air, then neatly touch down- long, black, gleaming hair, pale white skin- is Felice. He didn't know she'd learned how to skateboard. He's never seen her like this before- so intently focused and content- her beauty beside the point, merely part of the catalog of effects- speed, balance, daring. He admires her athletic form and feels moved in some unexpected way.”
Source: Birds of Paradise
“He realizes he doesn't want to play this game, once so familiar to him. He has no interest in trading barbs. He has no interest, even, in protecting himself.
He interrupts her halfway through some scathing little comment about her time in the palace. "Just tell me what you wish of me. Jewels? Gowns? A comfortable manor? This is dull. What possible value is there in a contest over which of us has a heart most like a withered little pit?”
Source: The Wicked King
“He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.”
“He really didn’t care, but he tried to pretend he did.”
Source: A Ghost In New Orleans
“He really does look perfect. Whatever strange look he’s going for—Gothic pop star—it works for him.”
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.”
Source: Gold