H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Her mother had said the words she longed to hear. Her mother could not get along without her. She felt warm, and safe and comforted.”
Source: Ramona and Her Mother
“Her mother is like a lemon-drop candy: at first sweet and pleasing, but when you get close to her, the sugar dissolves, leaving something sour underneath. Such a contrast to Elle's father, who was more like caramel: smooth and sweet from first meeting until the end. Elle suspects her father loved his wife because she was a challenge; he had a knack for softening edges. And she made him think. Having been a corporate success, her father was always up for a debate. Yet he had a gentle side; he loved his wife and his daughter more than anything-- except maybe his garden.”
Source: The Ingredients of Us
“Her mother likes to say that novels have ruined Amelia for real men. This observation insults Amelia because it implies that she only reads books with classically romantic heroes. She does not mind the occasional novel with a romantic hero but her reading taste are far more varied than that. Furthermore, she adores Humbert Humbert as a character while accepting the fact that she wouldn't really want him for a life partner, a boyfriend, or even a casual acquaintance. She feels the same way about Holden Caulfield, and Misters Rochester and Darcy.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Her mother looked at the window over the sink. The moon shone huge and ivory yellow through the kitchen window. "You've always loved the moonlight. It seems to relax you."
Vanessa looked outside at the moon. "Do you think there is a goddess of the moon?"
"Oh, several," her mother answered.
"No, I mean for real."
"I was answering for real." Her mother pushed back her chair, then walked over to the sliding glass door, opened it, and stepped out on the patio. The night jasmine filled the cool air with its sweet fragrance. "God must have many spirits to help. We call them angels because that's what we learned to call them when we were little. But there must be many divine beings who act as God's messengers. I think there's room for a goddess or more. When you look at the beauty of the moon it's easy to believe.”
Source: Goddess of the Night
“Her mother’s love was the only cloud of solace for her in the darkness around”
Source: Skylines
“Her mother’s voice – which came as a whisper in her ear – seemed so solid, so clear in Milly’s mind, that it was like insects preserved perfectly in amber. The warmth of her mother’s breath, the whiff of the peppermints she sucked, and the light tickle of her hair – all perfectly encapsulated in her cerebrum.
And so as the girl blossomed into a teenager, she had by now learnt to live with this condition, and soon came to appreciate the specialness of it. Even dead, her mother would always be there. With her.”
Source: The Ingenious and the Colour of Life
“Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.”
Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it seem logical. As if he was lying in a hospital bed with cancer rather than rotting in a prison cell for rape and murder.”
Source: The Reaper's Daughter
“Her mother told her
she could grow up to be
anything she wanted to be,
so she grew up to become
the strongest of the strong,
the strangest of the strange,
the wildest of the wild,
the wolf leading the wolves.”
“Her mother told her "When I didn't like someone of something about a person,it probably was something I didn't like about myself.”
Source: Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma
“Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse”
“Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“Her mother was peaceful. She was calm. The sight filled Alice with the kind of green hope she found at the bottom of rock pools at low tide but never managed to cup in her hands.
The more time she spent with her mother in the garden, the more deeply Alice understood- from the tilt of Agnes's wrist when she inspected a new bud, to the light that reached her eyes when she lifted her chin, and the thin rings of dirt that encircled her fingers as she coaxed new fern fronds from the soil- the truest parts of her mother bloomed among her plants. Especially when she talked to the flowers. Her eyes glazed over and she mumbled in a secret language, a word here, a phrase there as she snapped flowers off their stems and tucked into her pockets.
Sorrowful remembrance, she'd say as she plucked a bindweed flower from its vine. Love, returned. The citrusy scent of lemon myrtle would fill the air as she tore it from a branch. Pleasures of memory. Her mother pocketed a scarlet palm of kangaroo paw.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Her mother was unrecognizable to her; it would have been easy to say that the illness had changed her, but it wasn't so simple, was it? Illness and dying had revealed her mother's truer thoughts, the ones her mother had been protecting from her.”
Source: Pachinko
“Her mouth— ah, that lush, sweet mouth— was a garden, and I was on my back, face tipped in adoration to the sun for giving me such brilliance, delightful aromas, and the indescribable lightness of being with her.”
Source: Random Acts of Hope
“Her mouth cinched into a round, plush shape, the sight throwing his brain into chaos... soft, tender, rose blossoms, cherries, sweet currant wine... he couldn't help wondering how they would feel on his skin, stroking downward, parting as her sweet tongue flicked out to taste him-”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“Her mouth curved in its slow smile.”
Source: Murder Is Easy
“Her mouth dry, her gaze ventured inevitably down, past the curls on his chest and belly, clear to where his rod thrust high and hard against the white of one bare thigh.
Her recall was instantaneous- as if she'd ever forgotten. As if she ever could! With stark, unremitting clarity, she remembered precisely how it had felt to touch him there, her knuckles buried in the coarse nest of curls that thickened and surrounded the base of his erection.”
Source: The Seduction Of An Unknown Lady
“Her mouth is a stage sprouting cardboard trees.”
Source: Soft Science
“Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.”
Source: Between the Lines
“Her mouth set. "I've already lost one man I loved tonight. I will not lose the other." She glared at him. "And curse you, you stone head, for making me say it first.”
Source: The Hero's Lot
“Her mouth smiled, smiled hard, but her eyes did not smile, ever. Her eyes watched and looked for something they knew they’d never find.”
Source: The Mare
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?'
I am made of memories.
'Speak, then.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Her mouth twisted into a sly smile. "How disappointing. A pretty girl's about the only thing that would keep me in a shithole like Geneva.”
Source: This Monstrous Thing
“Her mouth was open, as if she wanted to say something, and I wanted to kiss her to show her that sometimes you don't need words. Sometimes they only get in the way, and you end up talking yourself out of things you need. People you want.”
Source: Blood Bound
“Her mouth was right on his ear, and she spoke her wicked thoughts aloud. "I want you inside me."
That was it. With a violent growl, he snapped. "Damn you, Elizabeth.”
Source: Highland Outlaw
“Her mouth was soft and moist, and she came to me like a dachshund jumping into your lap.”
Source: The Hot Spot
“Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her.”
Source: Persuasion
“Her mum büyük bir saygıyı hak eder çünkü vücutlarını yakarak, kendilerini yok ederek bize ışık verirler!”
“Her mum is leaning against the wall, arms crossed, when Summer exits. “Gage left from here a few minutes ago,” she says, tone neutral. “His hair was ruffled.” She gestures with her hand above her head.
The haze Gage left Summer in vanishes. She frowns.
Her mum sighs and steps forward. Smooths her daughter’s hair. “If he hurts you,” she says in a mild tone, “I’ll kill him.”
Source: Burning Falls
“Her music drawer looked like a rainbow”
Source: America: No Purchase Necessary A Novel
“Her naiveté responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.”
Source: Tender is the Night
“Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.”
“Her nakedness yielded to him, radiant, warm, odorous snd lavishlimbed, enfolded him like a shining cloud, enfolded him like water with a liquid life: and like a cloud of vapour or like water circumfluent in space the liquid letters of speech, symbols of the element of mystery, flowed forth over his brain.”
Source: A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!”
Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)
“Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.”
Source: Lila
“Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.”
“Her name is Arabelle.”
Marius felt her name sink into his chest like a long-ago lullaby waiting to be sung again.”
Source: The Black Lily
“Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"
Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes."
"Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.”
Source: Sacrifice
“Her name is not important to me now, but when it was I would whisper it under my breath just to relive the warm tingle that would shoot from my heart to my head and back”
Source: 9 Life Lessons I Wish Someone Told Me Sooner
“Her name is Penny. That's another way to be called worthless. She can thank inflation and Central Bankers.”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“Her name is Queen Theodosia, and if you won’t apologize for disrespecting her, I’ll let her men have you and I’ll describe your last moments to your wife so that she knows how pathetically you died.”
Mattin grunts, eyes dropping away. “I apologize,” he says through gritted teeth.
Søren looks tempted to extract something more sincere out of him, but that would hardly be productive. I clear my throat.
“I accept your apology,” I say coldly. “I hope you come to see that a woman can wield power beyond what’s between her legs—for your daughter’s sake if nothing else.”
Source: Lady Smoke
“Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.”
“Her name rang in Will's mind like the chime of a bell; he wondered if any other name on earth had such an inescapable resonance to it. She couldn't have been named something awful, could she, like Mildred. He couldn't imagine lying awake at night, staring up at the ceiling while invisible voices whispered 'Mildred' in his ears. But Tessa--”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Her name, said the Oracle, will this time be Ama, a female that sleeps in every one of us, Yin of Creation, a wisdom guide that with her purity extinguishes thirst for spiritual longings. She is the one that stands on a crescent moon with stars in her hair, pouring water from jars of her soul into lakes of emotions, awakening compassion for humankind and its Chaos, nourishing Earth and Her constant renewal.”
Source: A-Ma Alchemy of Love
“Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.”
Source: Dubliners
“Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably encompassing even the remotest of hearts.”
Source: At the King's Command
“Her name was Ame. She had gorgeous grey eyes and a gently rounded face, but it was her hair, coal black and windwild that had drawn me in the first time.”
Source: The Never Tilting World