H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool.”
Source: Dark Places
“He wore a white girdle that pulled in his waist just above the hips. He was, of necessity, slender. She believed men should take up as little space as possible. He wore his black hair long over his shoulders, tied once with a white ribbon. The men allowed to live were, of course, beautiful, far more beautiful than any of the women Zezili knew. Anavha was clean-shaven, as she wanted him, lightly powdered in gold, his eyes lined in kohl, eyes a stormy grey, set a bit too wide in a broad face whose jaw she has initially found almost vulgar in its squareness. He stood a hand shorter than she; she easily outweighed him by fifty pounds. She liked him just this way.”
Source: The Mirror Empire
“He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.”
Source: Range of Motion: A Novel
“He wore black breeches, a black doublet, and a black mask adorned with silver. How fitting that he was already dressed in mourning clothes for his own funeral.”
Source: Snakes in the Garden
“He wore desperation like a comfy coat and, snuggled into it, he would feel relieved, because without hope you will never get disappointed again and won’t disappoint anyone else.”
Source: As the moon began to rust
“He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.”
Source: Butcher Bird
“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.”
Source: Losing It
“He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.”
Source: Played to Death
“He wore khaki pants and a dark blue tee shirt, and was much shorter
than he sounded on the phone. For some reason this made Kat even
more uneasy.”
Source: Fear Not the Starry Sky: A Kathleen Lang Novel
“He wore my ex-boyfriend's cologne, and then tried to kill me." Talk about your bad first dates.”
Source: Survive By The Team
“He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.”
“He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.”
Source: Taking Care of Business
“He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.”
Source: A Mixture of Madness
“He wore youth like a weapon.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“He work in me to wait upon thee.”
“He worked at a feverish pace. He experimented with all manner of pies: tortoises, eel, chicken, frog, mushroom, artichoke, apricot, cherry, and his favorite of all, a luscious strawberry pie. He made omelets, stuffed eggs, and poached eggs with rosemary over toast. There were soups galore: fennel, tortellini, Hungarian milk, millet, kohlrabi, pea, and his famous Venetian turnip soup, which this time he made with apples instead. He molded jelly into the shapes of the cardinali crests, colored with wine, carrot, and saffron. He delighted most in the moments when he worked with his favorite knife, carving and slicing roasted cockerel, peacock, capons, turtledoves, ortolans, blackbirds, partridges, pheasants, and wood grouse. Every slice of the knife gave him greater confidence and belief in his power to make the world his.”
Source: The Chef's Secret
“He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.”
Source: Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella
“He worked at the hospital as a general surgeon, and she'd ended up asking him lots of questions about the sort of stuff he did (on that particular day he'd removed an appendix and a bile duct). She also asked about normal post-surgery recovery time and procedure times, and he had been very reassuring. They'd ended up talking for a very long time about all sorts of things, which he seemed to sense she'd been in need of. He'd said something about not over-googling health symptoms. And that had led to them talking about social media- he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.
That's why everyone hates each other nowadays, he reckoned. Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends Ever heard about Dunbar's number?”
Source: The Midnight Library
“He worked for a securities firm, talking to money managers and hedge funds about how best to manage risk. He specialized, he said, in corporate equity and debt.”
Source: Still Me
“He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.”
“He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.”
Source: Sapphique
“He worked well with the GhostWaljers, as a member of that team, but having Shylah as a partner was eye-opening. She seemed to anticipate every possibility as he did, and she took steps to protect him more fiercely than any person ever had.”
Source: Toxic Game
“he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment”
“He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.”
Source: My Week with Marilyn
“He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.”
“He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game.”
“He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.”
Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin
“He worried that when he would speak of the past, he would sound and look old, as all ancient storytelling men did.”
Source: Our Country Friends
“He worshipped the ground I walked on. It made no sense. We were as different as we could be. I was a nothing, and he had the world at his feet, but apparently, in this scenario, he didn’t see it like that. He didn’t have everything unless he had me.”
Source: Frog
“He worships God who knows him.”
“he worst mistake you can make is to force yourself to shop. The most important part of shopping is your frame of mind. How can you make a proper choice if you feel like the mistreated heroine of a soap opera?
A frivolous hat or other bit of forbidden fruit are ideal for beating the blues, but stay out of the dress and coat departments until you feel enthusiastic. If your body isn't attuned to fashion, you won't look right in anything. And if you're depressed because you've gained a few pounds, don't buy something too small to grow down to. Lose the few pounds first then go shopping. [i] Remember, diets always start tomorrow. [/i]”
Source: Wife Dressing: The Fine Art of Being a Well-Dressed Wife
“He would almost call this feeling for
jeannette hate, if he were not so afraid it was love.”
Source: The First Princess of Wales
“He would always be around you, not in these words or paintings, but in your heart. He will always be in happy memories. You can't cage his worth in few pages and colors.”
Source: The Unending Maze: Because Finding Your Way Out Has Never Been More Difficult
“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”
Source: Shadow of the Hegemon
“He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“He would at least be remembered in his cultures history books. Destroying two of his emperors revered structures, on the same day, would not go unmentioned.”
Source: Inara
“he would awake from those dreams with an overpowering sadness and the familiar knowledge that this deprivation could not be alleviated without the risk of further betrayal and the eventual certainty of absolute erasure. Both pains were too extreme to face again. Better, it seemed, just to let his soul die slowly, bit by lonely bit.”
Source: Replay
“He would be able to suffer what his son had suffered. He would be able to suffer and his suffering would for an instance displace his grief.”
Source: A Thousand Cuts
“He would be alone, and apart from life, which was all he wanted.”
Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.”
“He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.”
Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc
“He would be lead into darkness, and in darkness would remain...”
Source: Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin (4-Oct-2001) Paperback
“He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on.”
Source: The Yearling
“He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.”
“He would be the sun Taran mac Delbaith flew too close to.”
Source: Lord of Silver Ashes
“He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.”
Source: Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel
“He would choose being alone over being lonely in a crowd.”
Source: Dreaming of Hiraeth
“He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“He would cover up the unwelcome truths, ignoring what stubbornly lingered before him. He’d keep doing so until a tempest rose, tearing away that veil with its fierce winds. This storm, poised to drag them all into the depths of darkness, bore the name Joseph Campbell.”
Source: Darkness In The Light #2