Hadn Quotes

#1. I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy

John Green

#2. It's like you are a car, a nice car that hadn't been washed for a year.
And then you got a wash and wax and all the trimmings.
You're sparkling, but you're still the same great car.

Lissa Price

#3. What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Robert Nozick

#4. Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

Terence Fisher

#5. She hadn't felt the click often enough in her life to take it for granted. And when it was so obviously echoed in the man who caused it ... that was something to think about.

Nora Roberts

#6. Adeline hadn't owned a television since 1992.
She'd suffered fifteen years hearing about how the Internet would transform American culture and open new avenues of expression.
But in the end, it was only more people talking about television.

Jarett Kobek

#7. His silence hadn't been helplessness - it hadn't even been love. It had been pity.

Mary Karr

#8. It had been an annoyingly peacful time in Boarderland, Blister cranky and despressed because he hadn't filled anyone with pus for nearly an enitre lunar cycle.

Frank Beddor

#9. Because if she was right, then ... Brant hadn't just been with Jolie the day she'd died. He'd set the fire that killed her.

Shannon Messenger

#10. He spoke again as if he hadn't just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

Aleatha Romig

#11. The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

Graham Greene

#12. I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

Patti Davis

#13. We have a saying in Russia: if there hadn't been an unhappy incident there never would be a happy one!

Anne Noggle

#14. At least we have each other. He held out his arms, like he would have given her a huge hug if they hadn't been strapped into their seats. The nose of the ship tipped to the right and he quickly grasped the controls again, leveling it out just in time to dodge flock of pigeons.

Marissa Meyer

#15. I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'

Sascha Radetsky

#16. Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

Robert Liparulo

#17. Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

Karen Thompson Walker

#18. In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

Leslie Charteris

#19. Belittle, v.
No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards.

David Levithan

#20. It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole
and yet
and yet
...

Lewis Carroll

#21. God, but he lied beautifully; it was a masterclass. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard on my own deceit, I would have stood up and applauded.

Claire North

#22. I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

Charles Krauthammer

#23. I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week.

Penny Reid

#24. The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

Nikki Cox

#25. I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

Paul Feig

#26. She hadn't returned to the Body Pump class again - people in there were obviously masochists - but

Nicholas Sparks

#27. Kaleb hadn't expected anything else - if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either.

Nalini Singh

#28. I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

Nick Davies

#29. But kids also make the hard things harder, and the painful things more painful, because you have to see them hurting too. Of course, they also give you a reason, a compelling one, to make it through." "I guess I hadn't

Leta Blake

#30. In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be.

Diana Peterfreund

#31. When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

Ty Burrell

#32. Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Ayn Rand

#33. Raven could destroy me. He could twist any one of the missteps I had made around him until he owned me. That he hadn't yet didn't mean he wouldn't ever. It just meant I was of more use to him running on my own steam, making fresh mistakes to compound the old ones than under his auspices.

Hailey Edwards

#34. She hadn't known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

Suenammi Richards

#35. I hadn't wished for Trent in my life, but now that I had him, I was more confused, more heartbroken than I'd ever been. Trent was willing to sacrifice everything for me, but I didn't know if I could let him.

Kim Harrison

#36. Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

#37. I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

John Sweeney

#38. In his haste to devour her body, Charlie noticed that Callum hadn't even bothered to remove his jacket and tie.

Beth Ashworth

#39. This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

Omar Sharif

#40. I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

David Mitchell

#41. He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn't expected the alien to be so completely alien.

Alan Dean Foster

#42. I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.

Bill Buford

#43. AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.

Kevin Lynch

#44. If my father hadn't exactly disappointed me, he remained something unknown, something volatile and vaguely threatening. My

Barack Obama

#45. If I hadn't already flown with him, I'd be scared. I'm above the water with nothing but his arms between me and an icy plunge. But his arms are wrapped tightly around me and his chest is warm. I lean my head against his muscular shoulder and close my eyes.
He rubs his cheek against my hair

Susan Ee

#46. If my landlord hadn't been so vehement about the no-pets clause in my lease, I probably would already have at least two cats roaming my apartment. I was considering taking up knitting. Well, no, not the last one, but I did miss having a pet. And the dating situation was becoming dire.

Debra Dunbar

#47. When he gasped for cleansing breath, because he hadn't felt clean when he was using. It took getting clean for him to realize it.

Riley Hart

#48. Ya lied to me and put yerself in danger. If the Three hadn't ripped you apart, those two bastards would have. Ya gotta listen to me girl. I've been down this road myself.'
Riley Smirked. 'Those guys wanted to party with you too?

Jana Oliver

#49. I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn't even known I was in. "I escaped," I repeat.

Gayle Forman

#50. We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Elizabeth Janeway

#51. She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

Karen Chance

#52. Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you?

Janie Chang

#53. I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

#54. No one ever does anything our of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves directly or indirectly. Even if it looks like a sacrifice, the alternative would be unbearable in some way. If I hadn't helped I wouldn't sleep well , and I need my sleep.

Sara Donati

#55. Ellie would think back on that moment and remember that Dirty hadn't so much as flinched when she'd touched him. In fact, he'd never shied away from her touch again. Not once, from that day forward.

Madeline Sheehan

#56. I hadn't read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

John Green

#57. I'd expected his style to be exotic and very different from modern dancing, but I hadn't expected that he would be doing a male version of belly dancing.

Colleen Houck

#58. Of all their eccentricities, Sally most ferociously mocked the habit Lobsang and Joshua had developed of watching old movies in the bowels of the Mark Twain. (Joshua was glad she hadn't been on board when the two of them had dressed up for The Blues Brothers.)

Terry Pratchett

#59. If Christ hadn't lived and hadn't died, there would truly be no way out at all.Then all the weeping would be horribly meaningless. Then one would have to run against a wall and smash one's scull. But as it is, no.

Hans Scholl

#60. It felt like I was living a life I hadn't had a chance to anticipate.

Jojo Moyes

#61. We're almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn't caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. "You must have been far away," he said laughing.

Jessica Day George

#62. And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!"
"No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Georgette Heyer

#63. Over the past forty days, I think I grieved for her every hour. In a way, I grieved for her before she died. And now that she was gone, I grieved for her still. Part of me wondered, however, if the grief would have been sharper, more debilitating, if I hadn't been given the month to say goodbye.

Penny Reid

#64. She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn't been able to give ... at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.

Nicholas Evans

#65. He felt his mother hadn't prepared him for what it felt like, falling alone. Which

Katherine Boo

#66. My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from real life, by which I think she meant men, or money, or both. Always accusing things of precisely the crimes they hadn't committed.
(From the short story: Once an Empire)

Rivka Galchen

#67. We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the illusion of having friends.

Ransom Riggs

#68. He hadn't done anything wrong, but the sense of being threatened and the experience of guilt were so closely related that it was hard to feel one without the other. When

James S.A. Corey

#69. Taij and I talked often, which is why, if there was a woman close enough to him that DeSire assumed was his wife, it was news to me because he hadn't told me.

Jessica N. Watkins

#70. I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

Miranda Cosgrove

#71. ho' was one I hadn't heard before," I admitted as we pushed through the door, gently popping an eavesdropping Dick in the side of the head. Dick cursed. Aunt Jettie shrugged. "You leave the TV on during the day. I've watched a lot of Maury Povich.

Molly Harper

#72. Normally ghosts didn't scare him. (Assuming, of course, Gaea hadn't encased them in shells of stone and turned them into killing machines. That had been a new one for him.)

Rick Riordan

#73. I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

Martin Freeman

#74. It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

Lisa Alther

#75. It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."

Gena Rowlands

#76. She couldn't actually think of a time when Colton Brooks hadn't owned a little piece of her heart.

Laura Kaye

#77. Not sure I would've been alive for their rescue if you hadn't set that bitch on fire. How did you do that?

Richelle Mead

#78. I was desperate to show him what I could do on my own. But my father, because he hadn't been there, simply didn't believe what I was actually capable of accomplishing.

Augusten Burroughs

#79. I hadn't just fallen in love with him. I'd fallen in need, in lust, in hope, in dream with him. I'd fallen crazily, head-spinningly, recklessly into him.

Nina Lane

#80. Iko snorted - a derisive sound that Cinder hadn't even thought escorts were capable of making. Staring

Marissa Meyer

#81. I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.

Walter Dean Myers

#82. Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#83. I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

Walter Jon Williams

#84. A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended.

Christopher Nolan

#85. It never occurred to him to ask her what sort of demeanor she preferred. He didn't have to strategize or even scheme. Later he knew what the dread had been dread of. He hadn't had to promise her anything, it turned out. It was all for free.

David Foster Wallace

#86. The poor fool hadn't realized that if all mankind shares a folly or an illusion, and likes to share it even knowing what it is, then the illusion is much more valuable and fine a kind of thing than the ass who wants to upset it.

John Dickson Carr

#87. I've been so careful my whole life that I don't even want to imagine what I've missed." Sara realized she was speaking so quickly she hadn't taken a breath, and suddenly felt lightheaded. "I can't miss you.

Heather McVea

#88. and then he would be off. Probably a good job Jeanie had decided to go home as he hadn't enough cash on him to keep her supplied with gin all night. Still, it was pay day tomorrow. Across the bar his eye fell on a man trying to catch the

Lynda Page

#89. But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Mark Twain

#90. Amaranthe decided not to explain that it hadn't been a guess, that Sicarius reserved his ultra icy glare for those who threatened him, those who spoke disrespectfully about his son, and those who dared invite Amaranthe to picnic dinners in the park.

Lindsay Buroker

#91. I felt his hand go to my cheek and wipe the tear that i hadn't realize was falling from eyes. I looked him in the eyes so he could see the hurt in min, and swiped his hand off.

P.L. Jenkins

#92. She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn't planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.

Tamara Hoffa

#93. No one was more stunned by the choice than her mother, who claimed to the saleswoman that she hadn't seen Danielle that dressed up since her first Communion.

Siobhan Vivian

#94. Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly.

Steve Van Matre

#95. I couldn't comprehend why she still hadn't stopped him because it's clearly every mother's responsibility to protect her children. After all, that's the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever

Veronika Gasparyan

#96. There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.

Lisa Unger

#97. She could have made a favourable impression on someone if she hadn't acted as though at any moment the city was going to step on her

Amor Towles

#98. Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?

C.C. Hunter

#99. Joe was so tired that he had slept through first hour Spanish, second hour history, and most of third hour English. The English teacher, Mrs. Lane, hadn't taken a liking to that. She decided to send Joe to the principal to discuss why he was so sleepy, which Joe hadn't taken a liking to.

Belart Wright

#100. Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn't come very far over the yars -- no farther really than from one "gang bang" to another, save that I had learned, as B. had yet to learn, that tomorrow the pain would be even greater.

Frederick Exley