H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor.”
Source: The Moonlight Market
“He was close to her now. There was something equally annoying and attractive about Hugo. He exuded an arrogant amorality that made his face something to either slap or kiss, depending on the circumstance.
'In one life we have known each other for years and are married...' he said.
'In most lives I don't know you at all,' she countered, now staring straight at him.
'That's so sad.'
'I don't think so.'
'Really?'
'Really.' She smiled.
'We're special, Nora. We're chosen. No one understands us.'
'No one understands anyone. We're not chosen.'
'The only reason I am still in this life is because of you...'
She lunged forward and kissed him.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“He was cocky. It would have been easy not to like him. But he was also kind, and that excused much. Kind, and...a little bit sad, somehow. I didn't understand that about him back then. But we were just kids.”
Source: Batgirl (2011-2016) #3
“He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.”
Source: Earth Unaware
“He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi.”
Source: American Gods: Tenth Anniversary
“He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell).”
Source: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 103, April 2015
“He was comfortable in any social situation: garden party or cage fighting contest, it was all the same to Vid, it was all interesting.”
Source: Truly Madly Guilty
“he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.”
“He was comparing you to the butterflies that you both adore and cherish, and he said you were special for the same reasons: you were rare, exotic and entirely you. He said you're beautiful exactly the way are now.”
Source: One Hundred Names
“He was condemned precisely because he prospered so well, he had no desire to risk his life, to defend the good life.”
Source: In the First Circle
“He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks and realizations leaves so many boys raised in poor, urban areas stumbling toward manhood with a hardened exterior masking deep insecurities.”
Source: A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
“He was conscious of a bliss that stole over him not infrequently now, had first stolen over him when he had first acquired this car, first bent over the bat-wing hood and seen the engine and drive-train, humble and useful like his own internal organs. It was a sense that at last what he knew of the world was sufficient to his being alive in it: that the world and what he knew of it were one. He called this feeling "growing up," and it did feel like growing, though in moments of mad elation he would wonder if what he was growing into weren't a Ford, or perhaps Ford: there was no other instrument, and no other man, so serenely purposeful and complete, August thought, so sufficient to the world and so self-sufficient: it would have been a destiny he could welcome.”
Source: Little, Big
“He was conscious of his body as a heavy cold horrible container. He had the feeling, coming to him as the memory of a dream, of being a prisoner waiting to be tortured. The extremity of pain was yet to come. And even now he was denied to comfort of self-pitying misery and warm tears.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.”
Source: Happy Death
“He was considering giving up.
"No. Don't Stop." I unsheathed my other blade. "Give me a fair fight, and I'll give you a fait death, Ibrihim."
His jaw tightened. After a moment, he forced open his shaking fingers and let his bow fall to the ground. When he drew his sword, he could barely support the weight of it. Still he threw everything he had into those final strikes.
And when I wrenched him close, when I prepared my killing blow, that one remaining eye met mine, as if looking into a mirror.
"I'm glad it was you," he said, quietly.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.”
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“He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.”
“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.”
“He was constantly surprising me like that. I had thought I didn't like surprises, but I found I did when they came from him.”
Source: Checkmate
“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
Source: We Were Liars
“He was contented because he was wealthy, and wealthy because he was contented.”
Source: Acres of Diamonds
“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”
Source: State of War
“He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside.”
Source: The Zoo Job
“He was convincing. Lying as cultural attribute. A hazard of the job. And I fell for it. It did not occur to me that he lies simply because he likes it. Lies to bosses. Lies on the stand. He boasts about it. Lies under oath. It's called testilying, he'd told me. Lies to women, especially to women. Starting with his mother and working his way through all of us. His wife. The doll collection. He couldn't be bothered to tell the truth.”
Source: In the Cut
“He was covered with a healthy pelt that had some men drooling and wanting him to be their leather daddy. He just shook his head at them. He didn't do that sort of shit. If you wanted someone to boss you around and tell you what to do, then go visit your parents." - Lon Taylor”
Source: Safe in His Arms
“He was covering up his laughter, and I wanted to tell him to stop. To just let it out. To let me hear it. I wanted to hear it. I needed to hear it.”
Source: Heartsong
“He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”
“He was crying, because the red marks of the whip on his back still hurt so terribly. But he was also crying because people were so beastly and unfair, and because he was only a boy and couldn’t do anything against them. Linda was crying too. She was grown up, but she wasn’t big enough to fight against three of them. It wasn’t fair for her either.”
Source: Brave New World
“He was crying in there, making woman gestures.”
“He was curious, courteous, open - never arrogant or condescending - and generous to a fault. Abigail Adams later noted his "agreeable affability," "unassuming manner," and "polite attentions to all orders and ranks"...”
Source: The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
“He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“He was cut from the scene like a case of the runs from a can-can routine.”
Source: He/She Smells a Hoo-Hoo
“He was Daphne to my Apollo. Unattainable yet irresistible.”
Source: Bella Donna
“He was dark haired and fair skinned, with lean, sharp-cut features, and the kind of gaze that tended to make people feel targeted. His eyes were unusual, blue with uneven swaths of green around the pupils. The green was so much more pronounced on the right side that in certain light it appeared as if he had two entirely different-colored eyes.”
Source: Marrying Winterborne
“He was David, cheered on for having the temerity to go after the lurching Goliath, and that aroused a kind of underdog spirit.”
Source: The Real Romney
“He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch – and now he was David, his own master, free…”
Source: I Am David
“He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor.”
“He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.
Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.”
Source: Take a Murder, Darling
“He was dead and he would not be getting up, again.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He was dead before. He knew it, didn't you see it in his eyes? My jacket."
"Your jacket?" I say, with enough force that my shaky voice makes Corr start. "How about 'my jacket, please.' "
Sean Kendrick looks at me, perplexed, and I can see he hasn't a clue of why I'm upset with him. Why I'm upset at all. I can't stop shaking, as if I've taken all of Corr's trembling and made it my own.
"That's what I said," he says after a pause.
"No, it's not."
"What did I say?"
"You said my jacket."
Sean looks a little bewildered now. "That's what I said I said.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“He was dead.
No trace of pain, no sufferings, no victimization.”
Source: The Dumb and the Dumbfounded
“He was dead. He just didn't know it yet.”
Source: Shadow Game
“He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.”
“he was dealing he was joking and talking and trying to get the players to laugh along with him. But they were all afraid to loosen up; it’d been too long”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse.”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent on the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if his cloak got caught in a thorny bush. When he did turn to speak to somebody, he used to swing his entire body and address him full face. When he shook hands, he was never the first to withdraw his own. He inspired such confidence that he was known as al-Amin, the Reliable One.”
“He was deeply susceptible, moreover, to that singular spell which the wilderness lays upon certain lonely natures, and he loved the wild solitudes with a kind of romantic passion that amounted almost to an obsession. The life of the backwoods fascinated him—whence, doubtless, his surpassing efficiency in dealing with their mysteries”
Source: The Wendigo