H Quotes
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“He would usually go into the subway tunnels, where he could be alone. That’s where he preferred to get high. There was no one around, but the rats and cockroaches, to see him at his all-time low. He was too embarrassed to be around people whenever he got high. At least, in the tunnels he could hide from the rest of the world.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.”
“He would’ve sworn the woman was a reincarnation of Holly Golightly, but this wasn’t a Capote novel, no matter her resemblance to Hepburn.”
Source: Bewitched
“He would've waited forever if she had been willing to come back.”
“He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.”
Source: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”
“He would walk down the hallway and people’s eyes would follow him, like he was a serial killer, or worse.”
Source: Normal People
“He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.”
Source: Amsterdam, Or, The Spoiler: A Comi-tragedy
“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.”
Source: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
Source: THE SHINING
“He would, wouldn't he?”
“He wouldn't be God if you could figure out
everything He wants to do with your life,
and every step He intends to take to get
them done.”
Source: BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE
“He wouldn't be smiling if she was going to her death," Val says, running a hand through his hair. "Fucking Seers."
Nos's frown is instant and defensive. "Don't blame themessenger."
"Fine. Fucking Fate.”
Source: Traitor Witch
“He wouldn’t be the first man to have died from dropping a lit joint.”
Source: The Woman in the Woods
“He wouldn’t be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people haunt libraries.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“He wouldn't betray me.”
Source: Anointed by Blood
“He wouldn't grovel, wouldn't fall to his knees and beg forgiveness. He was the son of the Leo, the King of all lions. He would, one day soon, be the Leo and reign over his people. He couldn't fall for her more than he already had, but he could hope she could see how he felt.
Because if she didn't, he wasn't sure what he would do next.”
Source: Prowled Darkness
“He wouldn't have been able to purchase this house if he wasn't so talented at tearing people down.”
Source: The Geri Rogue
“He wouldn't have understood if I'd told him why I spend my time with criminals. He didn't know that I belonged with them. More than I belonged with him.”
Source: The Bone Season
“He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, because he went to sleep dreaming that she was still lying beside him.”
Source: Crown of Midnight
“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options—You can choose how you feel or you you can let your feelings choose you because maybe it is true that those were the options that my husband had, but I knew I didn't have those options and I hated for someone to tell me that I had options I didn't have because I knew that my mind was a small object for sale and my feelings could pick me up and own me and maybe my husband was too expensive for feelings to choose him, to pick him up and have him rung up and scanned and bagged and taken along with those feelings, feelings of I can't really get out of bed today and Husband, would you please not talk to me for the rest of the year. I, too often, had my face smashed against concrete curbs of Ruby, memories of Ruby, the way her face had looked that afternoon as she curled in that chair by the window and the light streaming in and the dark streaming out and what happened so soon after—I went around hostage to those memories, an invisible person following me with a gun barrel to my back.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?”
Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection
“He wouldn't talk to me for two months. I was like, 'What an ass**le.' Actors are used to getting their way and to treating women like objects. "[on Wesley Snipes after she reports he made unreturned passes at her]”
“He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.”
Source: Parade's End
“He wouldn’t take anything from her ever again. But from this point on, he’d give her whatever she wanted. Which was easy, because what she wanted right now was an orgasm.”
“He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.”
“He wrapped a pink scarf around my shoulders.
It was misshapen, a bit wonky, and looked like a few stitches were out of place. But I loved it. Absolutely loved it for all its imperfections.
Imperfect things were somehow still perfect.”
Source: The Gravity of Missing Things
“He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her into another kiss, and she melted into him, pressing as close as she could, and still he wanted to be closer. Her fingers threading into his hair, his around her waist, moving, exploring. Calculations had no room here, probability and chances washed away to a deeper longing. His tongue traced the contour of her lips, memorizing her taste, her motion, her method. The kiss lit a million suns in between his zeroes and ones, and made him infinite.
He did not want to let go. He did not want to leave--he WOULD not. It was that voice that cried this, deep inside him, growing louder and louder. It was selfish. It was damning. But he did not want to forget the taste of her, her warmth, her curves, her smell. It was selfish and it was human.
And for a moment he allowed himself to be.
Until finally, she slid away, coming up for air. "You, too?" she whispered, her breath hot against his lips, hopeful, her eyes blazing like suns rising for him.
He pressed his forehead against hers. "On iron and stars," he promised.”
Source: Heart of Iron
“He wrapped her around his hands and then yanked her inside out.”
Source: The Sword Thief
“He wrapped her hair around his fist, tilted her head back, and kissed her. Hard. She moaned into him, and he pulled away.
"Possessive much?" she asked on a laugh.
"Just making sure these hooligans know you're mine."
Her brow rose. "Really? Yours? Talk about caveman."
"I'm a Gallagher, baby, I'm as caveman as they come.”
Source: Love Restored
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
“He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close enough that she could hear his heart beating. "I would never intentionally hurt you, Aiwattsi. If I ever did break your heart, it would break mine too.”
Source: Saddle Up
“He wrapped his arms around me and planted a kiss straight on my lips, hard and long. It felt like I was watching the kiss instead of being inside of it.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“He wrapped his arms around me. We were cuddled up like a couple of spoons in a cutlery drawer.”
Source: Noughts & Crosses
“He wrapped his hand around hers, pressed a kiss to the heart of her palm, and held her gaze. “I’ve got a one-room cabin, a few horses, and a dream that’s so small it won’t even cover your palm. But it sure seems a lot bigger when you’re beside me.”
The moonlight streaming through the window shimmered off the tears trailing along her cheeks. “I’ve always wanted a dream that I could hold in the palm of my hand,” she said quietly.
-Houston and Amelia”
Source: Texas Destiny
“He wrapped his rancid layer of flesh around her beautiful skin. He smothered his will into her weak mind and abused every sense of self she possessed. She was a lost girl before, but now, she was empty.”
Source: His Next Victim
“He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His
breaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. He
smells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.”
Source: Allegiant
“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“He wrestled his focus back to his present dilemma. The two of them standing in a cheap hotel room with nothing to do besides the obvious things a man and woman could do in a room with not much more than bed in it.”
Source: Midnight Heat
“He wriggled around on the floor and twisted into weird contortioned shapes, as he screamed in pain. He wondered what was happening to him. Why was he feeling such great pain? Was it from his cancer? Did it finally come to claim him?”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He writes nothing whose writings are not read.”
“He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.”
“He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.”
“He wrote a love story in the stars, just for her, and the universe softly whispered it to her.”
“He wrote: "A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way." Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.”
Source: Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes
“He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.”
“He wrote it exactly and the sinister part only showed as the light feathering of a smooth swell on a calm day marking the reef beneath.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.”
Source: Just Kids
“He wrote of the ordinary soldiers, the 'dogfaces,' and their bravery, and their misery, and the terribleness of their deaths. 'Dead men had been coming down the mountain all evening, lashed onto the backs of mules,' he wrote from Italy, describing a soldier who stopped to sit by the body of a captain, holding the dead man's hand. 'Finally he put the hand down. He reached up and gently straightened the points of the captain's shirt collar, and then he sort of rearranged the tattered edges of his uniform around the wound, and then he got up and walked away down the road in the moonlight, all alone.”
Source: These Truths: A History of the United States