H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.”
Source: Transcend
“He would do anything to avoid ageing and death...anything.”
Source: A Change of Heart
“He would do anything to put things right for her, though he knew from experience that no one could ever put someone else's life to rights. One could only listen and encourage and love. And hold when holding was appropriate.”
Source: Only Beloved
“He would do his best, but his best would not be good enough. It would never be good enough to repair the hole that would open in her child’s heart.”
Source: My Mother's Secret
“He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him”
Source: Heart of Obsidian: A Psy-Changeling Novel
“He would doubtless have promised anything for the mere pleasure of breaking all bounds; perhaps he would even have liked her to ask him to swear on oath so he could add the attractions of perjury to his horrible pleasures.”
Source: Incest
“He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“He would embody the rockstar, in-demand surgeon the rest of the veterinary world saw him as.
Granted, most rockstar veterinary surgeons didn't go around carrying an eight-pound papillon with glittery painted nails, but it couldn't be helped.”
Source: Pugs and Kisses
“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”
“He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.”
“He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.”
Source: Orlando
“He would give them both three days to purge the other from their system.
Three days to quench the fire raging between them.
Three days.”
Source: 3,2,1
“He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.”
“He would have been careful not to violate his conscience in any way that might keep him from devoting his full attention to the sin he had decided to commit. Pedro was not really very different from all men, at least in that. Not very different from the bank teller who makes sure to give every customer exact change, even while he is embezzling.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines taken out and burnt, and his carcase chopped into four quarters.”
Source: John Milton: Introductions
“He would have been handsome in his heyday, and hell, he was a silver fox now. My daddy issues didn’t run that deep, though.”
Source: The Daymakers
“He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“He would have died rather quickly to not lose track of his wife in the afterlife.”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.”
“He would have given anything to be with the one he loved.”
Source: Every Exquisite Thing
“He would have given the world to have been a little braver at the time, but it did not occur to him that he might still be brave.”
Source: The Body Snatcher
“He would have given up everything -- education, comfort, luxurious life and his powerful position as manager -- if only just for one day he could have been the humblest of these poor devils under him and be free with his own body and be oafish enough to beat his wife and take his pleasure with the wives of his neighbors. He found himself wishing he were dying of starvation too, and that his empty belly were twisted with pains that made his brain reel, for perhaps that might deaden this relentless grief! Oh to live like a brute, possessing nothing but freedom to roam in the cornfields with the ugliest and most revolting haulage girl and possess her!”
Source: Germinal
“He would have gladly given her anything she named, but he was completely certain all she wanted was him.”
Source: The Paris Soulmate
“He would have gone days without food or water just to be inside her again. To possess something so wonderful and forbidden. Any torture, any punishment, any sacrifice would have been worth the cost of pleasuring them both until they couldn’t move.”
Source: Not A Book
“He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.”
“He would have liked spending a little time with one of the girls himself. Instead, he had to settle for sleeping in a room with a bunch of guys. It was a total sausage fest, he thought.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited
“He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“He would have lived next door to a garbage gully if it meant a roof over his head, hot meals, waking up in the same room every morning without his heart hammering as he tried to remember where he was.”
Source: The Demon in the Wood
“He would have no choice but to gaze at the sleeping face of his wife, pleasantly sleeping her usual way in the comfort of his arm, and, within the emotion of fear, dread and apprehension, take stock of his calibre as a human.”
Source: Stand-In Companion
“He would have scored a touchdown if he hadn't been tackled right there.”
“He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren”
“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1
“He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.”
“He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.”
Source: True Fate
“He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.”
Source: Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
“He would like to meet Lecter, talk and share with him, rejoice with him in their shared vision, be recog nized by him as John the Baptist recognized the One who came after, sit on him as the Dragon sat on 666 in Blake’s Revelation series, and film his death as, dying, he melded with the strength of the Dragon.”
Source: Red Dragon
“He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?”
“He would listen to the sound forever. He would bottle it and sell it and make a fortune. He had never heard anything better.”
Source: Lord Blackwell's Promise
“He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“He would look to me to give him consequences for his actions. It was an expectation I’d allowed him to develop. It was also an essential aspect of our relationship dynamic. I wouldn’t fail him.”
Source: Burdens & Riding with the Wind
“He would make a lovely corpse.”
“He would move on. Because he would not be like the ancient kings in the song and keep her for himself. She deserved a loyal, brave knight who saw her for what she was and did not fear her. And he deserved someone who would look at him like that, even if the love wouldn't be the same, even if the girl wouldn't be her. So (Dorian) closed his eyes, and took another long breath. And when he opened his eyes, he let her go.”
Source: Crown of Midnight
“He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.”
“He would never abandon me as Orga is so often abandoning Wendell. Dogs are proper companions, not the physical manifestation of caprice.”
Source: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
“He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.
Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless.”
Source: A Memoir of Love
“He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.”
Source: Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People