H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.”
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
“He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.”
“He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.”
“He treats himself like a weapon for your destiny.”
Source: Saving Poughkeepsie
“He treats me like his property. But it’s all fine. I have my ways to escape from the prison he designed for me.
He likes his girls proper and innocent. Oh, hubby dearest. You haven’t a clue in the world. You’re going to regret underestimating me.
While he’s deep in dreamland, I have other things on my mind.
Blood. Revenge.
Murder.
At night is when I unleash all of my vulgar thoughts on paper.
At night is when my fantasies come alive.
At night is when I write.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“He treats me like the dirt under my feet.”
“He treats me with respect; he opens doors for me, makes me laugh, and comforts me when I cry. He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return.” —SHEA”
Source: He + She
“He triat ser feliç. Aquesta felicitat no és perfecta ni exempta de dolor. A dins hi porta un dol. Però justament per això és més intensa.”
Source: Notes to Self
“He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“He tried hard to forget the images of war that now began to haunt him.”
Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park
“He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.”
Source: The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
“He tried not to cry as he wondered if he would ever have a home again.”
Source: Mason the Mutt
“He tried not to hug her too hard, even though she was kind of hugging him too hard. In fact, she was pretty much crushing his rib cage. He didn't mind, though.”
Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men— because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.”
“He tried the crank radio, a pirate station out of Memphis. Static and guitar scratch, the straggling notes of a song about home.”
“He tried the luxury of doing good.”
“He tried to behave, but then despair always took the form of irony with him.”
Source: The Gasp
“He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its evolutionary inheritance and so remade itself in whatever image it coveted. The more sophisticated you became, the less you relied on fear and pain to keep you alive; you could afford to ignore them because you had other means of coping with the consequences if things went badly.”
Source: Look To Windward
“He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hope, if not his heart, would find a way.”
Source: The governess
“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”
“He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.”
“He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.”
“He tried to gather the parts of himself that felt unraveled, tried not to appear so terribly pitiful in front of someone he didn’t even know, but no matter how many times he inwardly scolded himself for crying while he swiped at his eyes, the sadness stayed, and so did the girl in front of him.”
Source: Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven
“He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.”
“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
Source: Cadáver exquisito
“He tried to hide how nervous he felt. If this experimental serum worked it would change his whole life. That meant everything to him. He closed his eyes and prayed to himself.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.”
Source: Snow in August
“He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.”
Source: The Runaway Queen
“He tried to let her know it would be all right. Eventually. Life wouldn't always be this painful. The world wouldn't always be this brutal. Give it time, little one. Give it another chance. Come back.”
Source: A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
“He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.”
Source: Neverwhere
“He tried to live a good life and devote that life to helping others, but he never thought the world would reward him for his efforts. Such a thought would be the ultimate in self-deluding self-aggrandizement, for why would the world care one iota about him? Now, however, he wondered if he had been wrong. Now, he thought that maybe, just maybe, if you lived a good life, the universe—this cold, cold world—might just reward you. And he did feel rewarded—rewarded beyond all the gold in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“He tried to make me work. With him,” he says truthfully, just as a war hero, the owner of a strong voice, should.
“You are wrong, Yuan,” Mee-Hae says, half-worried and half-angry, her voice suddenly quivering. “He wanted to make you work. With or without him.”
“I have to stop him,” the Monk says.
“Am I the bait?”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“He tried to measure his day
by tallying the hours on his wrist.
I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.
He placed the hours on a scale
with hours from former days to compare.
I took a hammer and broke it all.
He bent down and picked up the
shards of minutes first
then swept the seconds.
I told him he’d missed a spot;
there were some sparkling specks left.
'What are they?' he asked.
'Those are moments,' I said.
'What are they made of?' he asked.
They are times, I thought, when you win a race
or win a heart.
They are times when you give birth
or lay something, someone to rest.
When you wake up in the morning
with a smile because anything is possible.
When someone compliments the thing
you hate most about yourself.
Times when you are embarrassed.
Times when you are hurtful.
Times when you relish in a hearty meal.
Times when you service others and
are content with a well-spent day.
'What are they made of?' he asked again.
'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'
I picked up one of the specks with the tip
of my finger.
'Do you remember this?' I asked.
'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen
that morning.'
'Why?' I asked.
'Because of the knowledge
that I was loved.”
“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
Source: Cold Mountain
“he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong”
Source: A Little Life
“He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.”
“He tried to remember her as a thin little urchin trailing across the fields with Garrick behind her. But that was no use at all. The urchin was gone forever. It was not beauty she had grown overnight but the appeal of youth, which was beauty in its own right.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: that her glance had passed through his eyes and down into his heart. He could still feel the burning trail it had left behind. That glance, he felt, was embedded in his heart, and there it glittered like a mysterious jewel. And in a strange and wonderful way it hurt.
Even if Bastian had wanted to, he couldn't have defended himself against this thing that had happened to him. However, he didn't want to. Oh no, not for anything in the world would he have parted with that jewel. All he wanted was to go on reading, to see Moon Child again, to be with her.
IT never occurred to him that he was getting into the most unusual and perhaps the most dangerous of adventures. But even if he had known this, he wouldn't have dreamed of shutting the book.”
Source: The Neverending Story
“He tried to remember the only advice his father had ever given him about what he had called "the birds and the bees", an odd concept to Tom's mind as surely these two species never mated with each other.”
“He tried to sacrifice you,' Jacks growled. 'He's a monster.'
'I'm not saying that Apollo was a good person,' Evangeline said. 'I just keep thinking that you've changed, and it makes me feel as if he should get a chance to change as well.'
'I think he's already gotten everything he deserves,' Jacks grumbled. 'And if it wasn't for you, I would never have changed. I wouldn't have been foolish enough to end up stuck in a tree, but I guarantee I deserved something similar.'
(Waterstones Exclusive Edition Alternate Ending).”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“He tried to scream, but nothing would come out. All he wanted to be was home, safe with his ma and daddy. Hot tears streaked down his grime-covered cheeks.
The candle in his hand sputtered out, and the darkness took him into its cold and empty embrace.”
Source: Hell Hole
“He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“He tried to sniff with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly. Every advance on his part was accompanied by a corresponding retreat on her part. Step by step she was luring him away from the security of his human companionship”
Source: White Fang
“He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn't believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought he could break her heart and take a kiss too.”
Source: Making Faces
“He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.”
Source: There's No Place Like Here