H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He wondered at the damage such simple words could do when there was no love behind them. Then he wondered how many kind words it would take to repair a lifetime of such damage.”
Source: The Paragon
“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.”
Source: Herzog
“He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....”
Source: The Silkworm
“He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.”
“He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”
Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
“He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man has been called.”
Source: Stardust
“He wondered how many had been created by the virus, since day one. A whole weekend had passed in a city of millions. It was very possible there could be hundreds or thousands, by now. It was a terrifying thought.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.”
“He wondered if he should share with her his suspicions about Morgan, but Gwyn and Morgan were clearly old friends. She’d probably just roll her eyes at him again and tell him he was being an idiot. And it was very possible that he was, but an ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.
"Wells frowned and made a mental note never to actually say that out loud in front of her.”
Source: The Kiss Curse
“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.”
Source: Tigerman
“He wondered if he would ever see the inside of one of those houses whose great windows blared sheaves of light. They made huge blurred spears that reached out into the balmy spring darkness.”
Source: Chickadee
“He wondered if identity is drawn not in indelible ink, but by a light 5H pencil.”
Source: Utopia Avenue
“He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“He wondered if other Shifters had the same homing instinct for a teleportation departure point. It never lasted long, maybe a couple of hours, a half day at most, like a subconscious computer memory. It baffled scientists years after they had first examined Lock’s abilities. Nobody had come up with an answer for that ability and Lock was unaware of how he did it. It simply existed, like his other skills.”
Source: The Starbirth Assignment: Shifter
“He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.”
Source: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.”
“He wondered if the Judge had mentioned that Hugh was a N*****, or if when you reached Judge Hamilton’s position such subtleties wouldn’t occur to you. And he wondered if Ellen had this latent fear when meeting someone new. With her background, it wouldn’t seem to be something she had to face, yet how could she escape it entirely? The quickening in the eyes, the certain intonation of the voice, the unspoken awareness: you are black. Even if you were brown or beige or lightly sun-tanned.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“He wondered if there were other places in the universe where the rules of the living did not require feeding on each other - where wonder could be discovered without horror and learning the truth did not entail losing one's faith.”
Source: Driftless
“He wondered if they knew fear, and thought that maybe if they didn’t, he could teach them it, like he’d taught manners to the foul-tongued and the red-handed.”
Source: Rustkiller
“He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.”
“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”
“He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“He wondered to himself, “Where is he?” He was very hungry, so he ate some lettuce. He preferred beans.”
Source: Where Is He?: Tank, the tortoise
“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“He wondered what it was like to be someone like Ellwood, who contributed to the beauty of a place, rather than blighting it.”
Source: In Memoriam
“He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments.”
Source: The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery
“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.”
Source: The Color of Magic
“He wondered what made a person a person. Was it something mystical like a soul? Something scientific like neural connections in the brain? Or something simpler like the ability to make someone miss you ten years after you'd died?”
Source: The Bride Test
“He wondered what O'Brian would have been like in a real war, one in which he actually had to fight rather than just take pictures. Then he wondered what he would have been like. Most of the men he knew asked themselves that question, as if never having fought somehow made them incomplete - left a hole in their lives where a war should have been.
Was it possible that this absence of war - marvellous though it was and so forth: that went without saying - was it possible that it had actually trivialised people? Because everything was so bloody trivial now, wasn't it? This was The Trivial Age. Politics was trivial. What people worried about was trivial - mortgages and pensions and the dangers of passive smoking. Jesus! - is this what we've been reduced to, worrying about passive smoking, when our parents and our grandparents had to worry about being shot or bombed?
And then he began to feel guilty, because what was he implying here? That he wanted a war? ... He was glad it was over, of course, in a way - but at least while it was on people like him had known where they stood, could point to something and say: well, we may not know what we do believe in, but we don't believe in that.”
Source: Archangel
“He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.”
“He wondered what would happen if he abandoned the spinster’s offer of marriage, if he could make the story’s denouement true to the strange, nuanced, open-ended and infinitely interesting life he was sharing now with Constance Fenimore Woolson, if he could make his adventurer begin to need, or half-need, the domestic life of a lodger with an intelligent and reserved woman who was lonely, but not willing to be preyed upon. She would ask him for nothing as obvious as marriage; what she wanted was a close and satisfying and, if necessary, unconventional attachment with loyalty and care and affection as well as solitude and distance.”
Source: The Master
“He wondered when the world would stop punishing him for being himself. Would it ever? The academic hierarchy looked upon him with disdain and distrust, they tossed him around several ways hoping to fix him but it only made him worse, more defiant, more confident in his disobedience.”
Source: Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim
“He wondered where the blind man was going and did he know how the road ended. Someone should tell a blind man before setting him out that way.”
Source: Outer Dark
“He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.”
Source: Doll Bones
“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
“He wondered why God was always mentioned in the most unusual moments of his life.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“He wondered why the stewardesses were looking at him funny by mid-flight, and realized he'd been responding to their rote kindness with the intensity of someone who has never experienced courtesy, or never expects to experience it again.”
Source: Authority
“He wondered, with some annoyance, whether he would finally learn what he wanted to know, or if he would have in the end to content himself with what he already knew. He felt that, at his age, patience was ceasing to be a virtue and was becoming a luxury he could less and less afford.”
Source: The Roots of Heaven
“he wonders, absently, how long it's going to take for the memories to pale. how long is it going to take before they start fading a little, until they're a remote, ancient blur in the back of his mind he takes refuge in because they're happy. because they're peaceful.”
Source: Tired Tired Sea
“He wonders aloud at the origins of valentining.
'You're right,' Rachel says. 'It is a verb. Can be. And birds valentine each other, make mating calls. And usually mate in mid-February. You see?'
'But why Valentine?' asks Zach. 'Why valentining?'
'There were many Saint Valentines,' offers Tasha. 'I don't know what the link is between their martyrdom and love letters.'
Zach is not very interested in the old tradition or the archaic verb. He is not bothered by the mating calls of passerines or the saints named Valentine and their associated symbols—he is merely fishing. Does Rachel think the tradition silly? If he were to send her a valentine, how strange would that be?”
Source: Be My Wolff
“He wonders how many ghosts walk the desert, how many people particles are buzzing around, physical and metaphysical.”
Source: Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse
“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.”
Source: The Other Side of the World
“He won’t last long, akri. Thanatos is barbecue. And I like my barbecue. Just tell me how you want him, akri, normal recipe or extra crispy. I’m partial to extra crispy myself. They crunch louder when deep-fried. Reminds me, I need some bread crumbs. (Simi)”
“He wore a smirk the Joker would be envious of.”
Source: Tajrish
“He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster
“He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit