Henry Quotes

“I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.”
― Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love.”
“Well, that is what most songs are about,” said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“No matter what happens, I will always be there for you, even if you do not remember who I am.”
― Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test

“D'you think he would have thought ahead like that?" said Henry.
"Assuredly," said Will. "The man's a strategist." He tapped his temple. "Like me.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“This is the gate between the living and the dead", he said. "You are still living. The others on the grounds died very long time ago."

A chill ran through me. "And you?"

"Me?" The corner of his mouth twitched. "I rule the dead. I am not one of them”
― Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“There should be a disconnect button you can push when someone leaves: you’ve fucked me over; therefore I no longer love you. I’m not asking for the button to be connected to an ejector seat that removes them from the universe, just one small button that removes them from your heart.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.
Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.
Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“I see the sunrise now," he said. "Because of you, the days have color. Eternity has meaning once more. You found every broken piece of me and put me back together, even though I hurt you too many times for me to deserve it. You are the glue that holds me together. If I lose you, it will be the end of me. The end of everything good in this world.”
― Aimee Carter, The Goddess Inheritance

“Being with Henry doesn't mean you have to give up who you are. Henry doesn't define you.”
― Aimee Carter, Goddess Interrupted

“And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Books are the windows through
which the soul looks out.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“What are you doing?"
Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way to get this idea into our heads, except by long rumination over the facts of evolution or perhaps by exposure to a primitive tribe or by being raised on a farm. Primitives sometimes see little difference between themselves and the animals around them. Karl von den Steinen was told by a Xingu that the only difference between them and the monkey was that they monkeys lacked the bow and arrow. And Jules Henry observed on the Kningang that dogs are not considered pets, like some of the other animals, but are on a level of emotional equality, like a relative. But in our own Western culture we have, for the most part, set a great distance between ourselves and the rest of nature, and language helps us to do this. Thus we say that a sheep “drops" its lamb, but a woman “gives birth"—it’s much more noble. Yet we have the right to make such distinctions because we assign the meaning to the world by naming names of things; we inhabit a different sphere and we capitalize naturally on the privilege.”
― Becker Ernest, The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man

“Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."
pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss”
― Heather Brewer, Twelfth Grade Kills

“But beneath it all, there's the Prince of England kissing him under a linden tree in the garden, moonlight in his hair, and Alex's insides feel positively molten, and he wants to throw himself down the presidential stairs.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Why is my mother texting me about how hot you are?"

"Weird. Think it has anything to do with the fact I just went to the bookstore in nothing but a patent leather trench coat?"

Charlie replies with a screenshot of some texts between him and his mom.

"Cottage guest is very pretty", Sally writes, then separately, "No ring."

Charlie replied: "Oh? Thinking of leaving Dad?"

She ignored his comment and instead said, "Tall. You always liked tall girls."

"What are you talking about" Charlie wrote back, no question mark.

"Remember your homecoming date? Lilac Walter-Hixton? She was practically a giant"

"That was the eighth-grade formal" he said "it was before my growth spurt."

"Well this girl's very pretty and tall but not too tall."

"Tall but not TOO tall," I tell Charlie, "can also be added to my headstone.

He says "I'll make a note."

I say, "She told me you would bring wood over to the cottage for me."

He says "Please swear to me you didn't make a 'too late for that' joke.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I thought we told each other everything."
"This isn't about us."
"It's always going to be about us"
"No, you want this to be about you. You care about what happens to me because of what would mean for you. You are the only thing that matters to you.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Henry looks Philip square in the face and says, 'I've been gay as a maypole since the dance I came out of Mum, Philip.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I couldn't imagine what Henry was doing, but as disconnected as his actions seemed, I had a childlike faith in him and, as confidently as Dr Watson observing the actions of his more illustrious friend, I waited for the design to manifest itself.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All of a sudden I found myself able to see him as the world saw him, as I myself had seen him when I first met him - cool, well-mannered, rich, absolutely beyond reproach. It was a convincing illusion that even I, who knew the essential falseness of it, felt oddly comforted.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All this time, I’d thought the nickname Study Machine was a compliment of sorts. That it meant productivity, above-human levels of discipline, that I was programmed for success. Now I wonder if it describes someone devoted to doing at the expense of feeling. Someone barely alive.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I am not by nature a dishonest man," Henry said softly, "but there are such times that the truth will not do.”
― Johannes T. Evans, Heart of Stone

“Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then , my dear Basil.”
― Oscar Wilde