Top 100 He Realized Quotes
#2. He realized then what he had known from the first minute he saw her, from when she leaned out the kitchen door and called for her husband. This was the start of his life.
Ann Patchett
#3. There he realized the oneness of the universe and man, that man is a universe in miniature.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. He leaned closer to me and then seemed shocked as he realized what he was doing.
Why would you do that? Why would you do that for me?
Richelle Mead
#5. At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
Albert Camus
#6. Staring at the hedge animals, he realized something had changed while he had his hand over his eyes.
Stephen King
#7. A centipede the size of a Pontiac had once lived in the bottom-right corner of the trunk but had long since moved on once he realized that no one was ever going to bother him, so he could stand up on his hind hundred feet, hiss like a pissed cat, and deliver a deadly bite to a naked foot.
Christopher Moore
#8. He'd only ever seen her twice, only talked to her once, but as he now gazed upon her, he realized that he'd missed her all day long.
Nicki Elson
#9. He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn't come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#10. Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other creatures when his purpose had been to create oneness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. Did he realized nothing would last, that sooner or later every last speck and smidgeon of matter would disapper?
Jerry Spinelli
#12. We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb.
Trina Paulus
#13. But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge, the more his innermost soul questioned man's right to judgment of any kind.
Lev Shestov
#14. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.
John Holmes
#15. Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy.
Mark Epstein
#16. He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.
Neil Gaiman
#17. Now for the first time he realized how important it had been not to admit any alternative to the hard, decent, orthodox choice which need not be regarded as a choice at all; how important not to be different.
Mary Renault
#18. He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would be formed by the architecture of war, but now he realized, he had been erased by it.
Kate Atkinson
#19. And then he realized that he loved the eagle better than the sheep and that he always would and that, because he did, because it was in him to do it, he could never be perfect in the sight of God.
Thomas Harris
#20. He realized that his eyes were fixed on the scene not out of duty, but from sheer inability to look away from the sheen of mingled rain and blood that gleamed on muscle, tightened in anguish to a curve of wrenching beauty.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. Was he actually looking forward to seeing Cara again? The goofy way his lips were curved into a smile said yes, and horror of horrors, he realized he was experiencing some sort of crush. He needed to kill something.
Larissa Ione
#22. Luther called marriage "a school for character," and he was right. He realized that his own life was enriched because of the love of his wife and family.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#23. He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile.
Aldous Huxley
#24. Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.
John Edward Williams
#25. The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.
George R. Stewart
#26. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and misshapen. It
Stephen King
#27. He went to the coffee pot and picked it up, attempting to pour a cup before he realized it was empty and frowned. "Why is the rum always gone?" he muttered in his best Captain Jack Sparrow imitation as he riffled through cabinets.
Elizabeth Sharp
#28. Hugo could smell the fresh scent of apples all around him, and he realized he'd never go to an orchard again without thinking of Erin being lifted toward that perfect apple and the smile on her face as she took a bite.
Posy Roberts
#29. He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.
Napoleon Hill
#30. He realized suddenly that he loved the old hobbit dearly.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. That was the moment at which he realized that he had possibly become unhinged. What did it matter? The whole world was unhinged.
Kate Atkinson
#32. Standing so close, he realized how much he missed her, but looking into her cold, indifferent gaze, he realized something else; it just might be too late.
Rachel Gibson
#33. Besides, he realized, he could not leave the house without a coat, not because of the rain - he did not mind getting wet - but because of the bulge in front of his clothing that would not subside. He
Ken Follett
#34. James slid into his seat and the girl next to him asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?" It wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice - "Shirley Byron!" - that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away.
Celeste Ng
#35. And he realized ... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
Nalini Singh
#36. She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.
Philip K. Dick
#37. She'd never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn't separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.
Nora Roberts
#38. After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading in the wrong direction.
Rachel Joyce
#39. Good God, Rachel, cant you go five minutes ... sweet sticky hell on a stick!' the demon exclaimed, his thoughts reeling from anger to concern as he realized I was hopped up on something.
Kim Harrison
#40. wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice - "Shirley Byron!" - that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away. In
Celeste Ng
#41. He was overcome by a violent and fraternal love for this man from whom he had felt so distant, and he realized that by killing him he had consummated a union which bound them together forever.
Albert Camus
#42. Instead, he reflected on what she'd said earlier, about their similarities, thinking she was right and hoping that it was enough to keep her coming back to the ranch. After a while their conversation lapsed into a peaceful lull, and he realized he had no
Nicholas Sparks
#43. He realized ... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
Isabel Allende
#44. He wanted to change her past, but even as he thought it, he realized
it was her very past that had shaped her into a woman who fascinated
him.
Lorraine Heath
#45. He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.
John Flanagan
#46. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
Patrick Suskind
#47. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.
Guy Sajer
#48. They can hear lies, he realized. But not thoughts. He could hide things, he didn't have to lie. Silence could be his shield.
Anthony Ryan
#49. And when he realized I was on my way, his gaze flew up to mine. In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved.
The world woke up when I looked at him.
Kiera Cass
#51. Brock 'Slim' Lucas looked at his oldest son, his eyes moved to his youngest son and then they slid to his wife.
And when his eyes hit her shining ones he realized he had not one thing to wish for. Not one. There was nothing he wanted.
He had it all right here.
Kristen Ashley
#52. who sought heaven
under a mountain of stone,
sat thinking
till he realized
the land of blessedness exists
in the imagination -
Allen Ginsberg
#53. When he decided they weren't police, he realized he'd been thinking maybe they were.
Justin Cronin
#54. She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she'd been made to function best at a certain tuning.
Kate Morton
#55. Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked.
China Mieville
#56. He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.
Hermann Hesse
#57. With a shaky hand he reached out and took the phone away from her and nearly groaned when he realized that his little recluse was watching an instructional video on her phone.
R.L. Mathewson
#58. As he was gasping for air he realized something. He was in deep shit. Haley was his life now. His woman. His heart.
He was so screwed.
R.L. Mathewson
#59. Immediately Trent went back to mowing down those cookies, slowing when he realized I was staring at him. What are we up to now? Ten?
Kim Harrison
#60. You're not too tall," Dunk blurted out. "You're just right for ... " He realized what he had been about to say, and blushed furiously. "For?" said Tanselle, cocking her head inquisitively. "Puppets," he finished lamely.
Robert Silverberg
#61. He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.
H. A. Dorfman
#62. His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience
the experience of reading someone else's thoughts
over real life.
Ian Rankin
#63. I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule.
Geoffrey Cowan
#64. Thanks for being here for me," she whispered.
He started to answer flippantly, but stopped when he realized how much it meant to him as well, that he could be there for her. "Anytime, babe."
And for the first time in his life, he actually meant it.
Jill Shalvis
#65. How would he answer the question? No idea. In that moment he realized something inside was very, very dead.
James L. Rubart
#66. I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
Woody Norris
#67. Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
Bill Willingham
#68. And horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush.
He needed to kill something.
Larissa Ione
#69. The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
Dan Brown
#70. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face, and stuck his tongue out, and the girl began to cry.
'What did you do to her?' Duck asked.
'I blew her a kiss. All girls cry when I kiss them.
George R R Martin
#71. He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.
Tim LaHaye
#72. But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
Philip K. Dick
#73. And he realized that this was their attitude toward Yahweh, too. They either hurried through life, ignoring Him, or they regarded Yahwey and His commandments with contempt.
Lynn Austin
#74. The more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone's lifetime.
Shane Kuhn
#75. And suddenly it wasn't a joke. The further she went, the more serious Lassiter got, and the shakier Wrath's shellan became, as if the words she were speaking were ones of great value and meaning. This was tradition for her, he realized.
J.R. Ward
#76. In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.
Joshilyn Jackson
#77. He realized that the woman at his side - the one with the sweaty red face and the sweet smile - had pried open his heart, one day at a time.
Susan Donovan
#78. It was with increasing perplexity that he realized his mind - and his heart - went with Miracle.
M. Leighton
#79. He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.
Jennifer Estep
#80. According to Seneca, Apicius committed suicide because, having spent one tenth of a considerable fortune on his kitchen, he realized that he could not long continue in the style he had chosen.
Mark Kurlansky
#81. Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
Milan Kundera
#82. It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.
Patrick Rothfuss
#83. Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.
Thomas Harris
#84. His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, he realized. Tiny fingers tickling you from the inside.
Nick Cutter
#85. He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.
Anthony Horowitz
#86. He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder.
Tacitus
#87. He realized then that he'd never want to be with anyone else, he'd never want to be anywhere else, and he would surely crumble to ash if this woman walked out his life.
Justine Dell
#88. When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet.
C.S. Lewis
#89. he realized he had learned a valuable lesson that day.
No matter how big the ride, the anticipation was far worse than the actual event.
Sue Brown
#90. He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.
Mario Lemieux
#91. He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.
Colum McCann
#92. He was shaking his head, biting into his lower lip, fighting the sheer misery of the anticipation, when he realized that another figure was standing directly opposite, on the other side of the fire, quite visible above the leaping flames, gazing at him.
Anne Rice
#93. It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#94. It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a well-established structure of authority as a prop to the imperial regime rather than exclude it as a hindrance.
Charles Freeman
#95. He realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men.
Milan Kundera
#96. He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
Cormac McCarthy
#97. As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed by the haze of his own youth. He had arrived, abreast of the best in his generation at Princeton. He was in love and his love was returned.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#98. After many years of his melancholy he realized that love
as understood by most of the people in the world, is mostly love of
the intellect, of the mind. It associates them with certain image of
love which a person has seen, read or heard.
Raj Doctor
#99. Then the nickel must have dropped when he realized I had pranked him as he groaned under his breath, "Bob!"
Doug's been trying to get back at me for years. But he can't, because I'm a lawyer. You don't get into and through law school like I did without gaining a few street smarts.
Bob Goff
#100. And from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink on the leaflets he's been distributing suddenly seemed, how he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be.
Alice Hoffman
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