Top 100 Humphreys Quotes
#1. My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
Simon Fowler
#2. His girl was on the tentacles of expectation about it.
(From Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance)
M.R. James
#3. Maya wrapped one leg around him, writhing against him as she threaded her fingers through his hair and held him to her, urging him on.
"Never stop touching me that way," Maya rasped.
Sara Humphreys
#4. The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.
Matthew Humphreys
#5. It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.
Josephine Humphreys
#6. She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop doing the thing you love, it will kill you.
Helen Humphreys
#7. It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here we are again. It makes me feel good, makes me feel that perhaps everything doesn't just disappear, that some things are circling back, taking the long way, but circling back towards me.
Helen Humphreys
#8. Loneliness is sometimes cured by visiting with people, and sometimes it's made worse by the same thing.
Helen Humphreys
#9. Maggie had a sinking suspicion that those stories her Aunt Lizzie told her, the ones that sent her to bed with her head full of leprechauns and fairies, may be more than fairytales after all.
Sara Humphreys
#10. It is the untold story of this war and it is the story of every war ever fought. Greedy men seeing someone weaker with something they want.
C.C. Humphreys
#11. The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.
Josephine Humphreys
#12. The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?
Helen Humphreys
#13. Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?
Christmas Humphreys
#14. I want you to let go. Just close your eyes and feel me. Don't think. Don't try to control it. All you have to do ... is feel.
Sara Humphreys
#15. I'm not into werewolves, but holy crap is he a hottie. Totally gorgeous and built like a tank. I bet he's got one down to his
Sara Humphreys
#16. Are ya trying' to kill me, lass?"
"Kill you? No." Maggie leaned closer, her hands drifting up and cradling his face as she rolled her hips again in one wicked pass. "Torture you? Maybe.
Sara Humphreys
#17. Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.
Chris Humphreys
#18. Lottie tilted her head to one side and looked Maya up and down. You're a little bit of a thing, but I hear you're good at stirring up big trouble.
Sara Humphreys
#19. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
Josephine Humphreys
#20. In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story ... There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.
Helen Humphreys
#21. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest bitch of all?
Sara Humphreys
#22. What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.
Helen Humphreys
#23. Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.
Would she ever be free?
Sara Humphreys
#26. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.
Alastair Humphreys
#27. You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.
Sara Humphreys
#28. My aim is a simple one. It is to smash the pedestal of boring upon which modern novelists and their books stand.
Joshua Humphreys
#29. Dakota pulled a lollipop out of his pocket before quickly unwrapping it and popping it into his mouth.
What kind of vampire sucks on human candy?
Sara Humphreys
#30. I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice - and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.
Josephine Humphreys
#32. The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.
Helen Humphreys
#33. I am waiting for you in the living room ... the very pink living room. I do hope that when we acquire a home of our own, after this nonsense has passed, you will not insist on bathing the entire space in shades of bubble gum.
Sara Humphreys
#34. Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither.
Christmas Humphreys
#35. He looked like a cross between The Terminator and a secret service agent - a really hot secret service agent.
Sara Humphreys
#36. It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.
Helen Humphreys
#37. I'll not be lyin' if I tell ya that I fancy ya a bit myself."
"The fancy feelings are mutual."
A grin curved her lips right before Declan pressed a kiss to them.
Sara Humphreys
#38. Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.
Chris Humphreys
#39. Maddy pressed her fingers to her lips, a smile blooming there. The man could kiss like the devil. Hot, passionate, demanding. Holy hell. Ronan McGuire was a force of nature, and equally dangerous.
Sara Humphreys
#40. It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.
Helen Humphreys
#41. Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
Helen Humphreys
#42. Outside the window as steam fogged up the bathroom mirror. The Punisher. That's what I'll call myself, and that is the name that they will fear. It will keep them up at night and have them all looking around
Sara Humphreys
#44. Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?
Helen Humphreys
#45. Tell me what you want, Mads."
"You," she said in a shaky whisper. "I want you, Ronan.
Sara Humphreys
#46. See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.
Alastair Humphreys
#47. Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.
Sara Humphreys
#48. I like the candor of dogs. They're always honest about what they're feeling.
Helen Humphreys
#49. Ronan cupped her neck with his other hand and brushed his lips lightly over hers. "I want you, Maddy. I want you more than I've ever wanted any woman in my life.
Sara Humphreys
#50. I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner, but you'll have to forgive an old vampire for being a bit rusty in the dreamscape.
Sara Humphreys
#51. Ronan's tall, broad-shouldered form cut a striking figure, and with Bowser at his side, the two of them had an almost superhero-like air about them. They were resolute and unwavering in the face of frightening and hopeless situations.
Man and beast, strong and steady.
Sara Humphreys
#52. She didn't know if she wanted to fight him or fuck him.
Sara Humphreys
#53. Another time might be easier than this one, but there's only the time you're in, thinks Enid. And it's always going to be lacking somehow. Best to spend some of your moments here on earth noticing what else is here with you instead of concentrating solely on your own misery.
Helen Humphreys
#54. Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir.
Chris Humphreys
#56. I'm still a little hungry." She shot a sly glance at Ronan before tangling her fingers in his. "Not quite sure what I want, though."
"Could've fooled me," Ronan murmured.
Sara Humphreys
#57. No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).
M.C. Humphreys
#58. How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.
Christmas Humphreys
#59. Start with a small product in lab environment and grow it!
Colin Humphreys
#60. Scaoileadh Me ...
'Release me.' That was what he said. No doubt about it. It was in Gaelic, but that was what the voice said.
Holy. Crap.
Sara Humphreys
#61. The residents blamed the "Gahmen", naturally. Since the explosion of social media, those "Gahmen" guys have been blamed for everything from HDB flat prices to the price of oil, climate change, the shortage of Hello Kitty dolls and kids not clearing their trays away at hawker centres.
Neil Humphreys
#62. You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.
Josephine Humphreys
#63. They were wrapped in each other's arms, lips and tongues dancing, and their hands exploring each other with wild abandon. With a wave of his hand and a seductively wicked wink, he divested them both of their clothing,
Sara Humphreys
#64. It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.
Helen Humphreys
#66. Killian's low, sexy growl slid over her seductively as he sidled up behind her and nuzzled her ear. I want to go on record that I was not in favor of putting on clothing, especially when all I can think about is taking yours off.
Sara Humphreys
#67. Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.
Helen Humphreys
#68. His father had been in the military and so had his grandfather. It was a natural fit when Ronan and his brothers each donned a uniform of some kind.
Sara Humphreys
#69. Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?
Helen Humphreys
#71. Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They'll give up dreams for that.
Josephine Humphreys
#72. Sharp. Intense. Powerful. Intoxicating.
Just like Killian.
Damn it all.
Before she could stop herself, Sadie took an involuntary step back.
Killian countered, taking one step closer, and his lips tilted into a lopsided grin.
Shit on a stick.
How annoying.
Sara Humphreys
#73. Ronan sucked in a deep breath, forcing himself not to look at her. If he did, he would want to kiss her again. That was all he could think about. Tasting her, drinking from her, and finding out if he made her half as crazy as she made him.
Sara Humphreys
#74. Adventure is just about doing something you've never done - doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.
Alastair Humphreys
#75. It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be, and he can't bear lying down with the vestiges.
Josephine Humphreys
#76. He was in a state of wonder most of the time, the way a young boy is
engaged by the most ordinary things as if they were great miracles.
Josephine Humphreys
#77. That was one helpful thing he said to her, the first thing that caught her attention. "Start your life." Because she had assumed that her life was over.
Josephine Humphreys
#78. Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!
Colin Humphreys
#79. Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.
Josephine Humphreys
#80. Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.
She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.
Helen Humphreys
#81. You were the one girl I wanted who wanted nothing to do with me.
Sara Humphreys
#82. Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.
Christmas Humphreys
#83. The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!
Susan Humphreys
#84. A hot man like that was made for more than friendship.
Sara Humphreys
#85. Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know. Still sharp."
"Forgetting takes practice," says Enid. "You have to work at it.
Helen Humphreys
#86. As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering? ... by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.
Christmas Humphreys
#88. The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
Christmas Humphreys
#89. Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.
Josephine Humphreys
#91. If you think Thanksgiving has been fun, just wait until Christmas."...
The doors slammed shut with a muffled thud, and all he could think about was the revenge she could be planning. He'd never looked forward to anything more in his life. "Game on.
Sara Humphreys
#92. The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.
Christmas Humphreys
#93. We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.
Christmas Humphreys
#94. There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.
Sara Humphreys
#95. All creatures are capable of darkness, but not all choose to succumb to it.
Sara Humphreys
#96. He tipped his head to Ronan and looked warily at Bowser. "Sir."
"David, this is Ronan McGuire and his partner, Bowser," Maddy said. "They're two of New York's finest.
Sara Humphreys
#97. Nineteen and living a life not his own, he was sure enough of his worth to put his name to his work and let it stand for him. Did not even have a wife yet, according to Queen, so it was not love that set him to cutting the pine, but a trust and a longing.
Josephine Humphreys
#98. Me father always said if ya can find a lass who's brilliant in the kitchen and in the bed ya best not let her go.
Sara Humphreys
#99. The people who lived beside the river for thousands of years, and whose history was intertwined with that landscape, have been very effectively excluded from ts recorded narrative.
Helen Humphreys
#100. I don't think anymore that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's not what I can see, but what I think is out there. And in the end, this end, here is what I believe. The heart is a wild and fugitive creature. The heart is a dog who comes home.
Helen Humphreys
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