Quotes About He Said

#1. Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said.
Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more.
They found out the following evening.

John Flanagan

#2. Help me', he said, like a lost child.
Go to Hell, the room respectfully replied; and for the first time in his life, he knew exactly what that meant.

Clive Barker

#3. What if I shave?" he said. "I look much better when I'm shaved. My cousin will vouch for that - do I not look almost handsome when I shave, Edward? " He didn't wait for the duke's reply but turned earnestly back to Prudence. "Do you think you could marry me if I shaved?

Anne Gracie

#4. I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

Kristin Cashore

#5. If it grieves you," he said, the words caressing my bones, "then I don't think it's absurd at all.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?" said Dibbler. "He says he can't," said Victor. Dibbler hesitated. "Well," he said, "I suppose he should know.

Terry Pratchett

#7. An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

C.S. Lewis

#8. Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?"
Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are.

Judith McNaught

#9. Getting older isn't always about having fun," he said. "In fact, in many ways it's about being bored. It's good if you can find a way to be entertained by your boredom.

Nick Burd

#10. What is your name?"
"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."
"A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."
...
"Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"
"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Georgette Heyer

#11. I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Madeline Miller

#12. Yes," he said dully to the sorn. "That is my world." It was the bleakest moment in all his travels.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Nothing," he said. "Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.

Sherry Thomas

#14. Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?"
I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun.
"Marc Antony," I said, "how does such a big man like you have such a little brain?

Kristiana Gregory

#15. To desperation," he said, and raised his glass. She raised hers as well, toward the altar.
"And to bleeding hearts," she added, and they drank.

Max Gladstone

#16. It hurts to cry," she said, her voice raspy.
"It hurts worse not to."
"Did you cry?"
"For four days straight."
"Is that how long it took you to bury them?"
"Yes, ma'am," he said in a voice that sounded like stone grating against stone.

Lorraine Heath

#17. the thing separating them was only a door and not a wall. He said nothing, merely nodded and thought to himself that worse than any wall is a door to which one has never had the key, a key he didn't know where to find, or even if it existed.

Jose Saramago

#18. I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that - and that was your mistake.

L.J.Smith

#19. Nice work," he said.
I grinned.
"You look like hell, though," he noted.
"I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid," I replied.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. You make me sound dictatorial," he said. "Finish your breakfast.

Thea Harrison

#21. Kennedy's address announcing the Apollo program was one of the great presidential speeches of all time. He challenged us. He excited us. We reach for impossible things, he said, "not because they are easy, but because they are hard." He

Mike Massimino

#22. Never too late for vocabulary building, he said.

Michel Faber

#23. I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.'
'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.

Mary Balogh

#24. I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#25. The man looked over at the woman. "The things I do for love," he said with loathing. He gave Bran a shove.

George R R Martin

#26. -So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking;
-Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;
-Aren't we all, I said;-

Evan Dara

#27. Say it," she said, and he said, "I love you. I'll always love you. Forever. It's a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.

Jennifer Crusie

#28. From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.

Elie Wiesel

#29. I think sometimes it is difficult to look after ourselves,' he said, thoughtfully. 'We look to friends to do it for us.

Erika Swyler

#30. Walk with me to the beach. We need privacy," he said quietly, his voice a seductive whisper against her ear.

Katie Reus

#31. He gave me this advice one time: Never marry your childhood sweetheart, he said; the reasons that make you choose her will all turn into reasons why you should have rejected her.

Robertson Davies

#32. One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

Matthew Healy

#33. She dropped her glass and wiped the spill with her sleeve.
'Oh, god, use a napkin,' he said. 'People are going to think you were raised by wolves.' He snorted at his own joke.

Faith McKay

#34. The accordion and the whores and the retching,' he said. 'That's our music.

Paula McLain

#35. Invisible ice on the stairs," I told Adrian. "I know I'm not supposed to say this," he said. "But I think I love you more than ever.

Richelle Mead

#36. In a week, you'll take it for granted," he said dismissively. "That's the way it works with miracles.

Stephen King

#37. Lies beget lies," he said. "Until, one day, someone needs the truth." Palewski

Jason Goodwin

#38. There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

Johnny Carson

#39. One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

Daniel Amory

#40. Life won't just happen to you boy, he said. You have to happen to it.

Laini Taylor

#41. Yeah- in between insulting someone's mother and taking the Lord's name in vain, he said, 'Bet you're glad she loves Cullen instead of me today, huh, Charlie?

Stephenie Meyer

#42. Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the whole world, and I think he loves everybody regardless of what label they have.

Billy Graham

#43. I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.

Caroline Kepnes

#44. Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

Mike Birbiglia

#45. Rylie," he said gently. "I love you. I've loved you since I understood what the word meant. I love who you are now, who you were then. And I'm gonna love you no matter what happens tomorrow, or next week, or next year.

J.B. Hartnett

#46. As I told you on Naboo, Anakin," he said finally, "we will continue to follow your career with great interest." And assure that it culminates in the ruination of the Jedi Order and the reascendancy of the Sith!

James Luceno

#47. We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.

Kim Harrison

#48. She sucked in a breath. "You're ... "
When she didn't finish the sentence, he turned his head and watched her gaze drop to his mouth, which was only a few inches from hers.
"Handy," she finished softly.
"And you're ... "
She smiled. "Stubborn? Annoying?"
"Set to go," he said.

Jill Shalvis

#49. The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.

Gilbert Burnet

#50. I swear I won't run away again, though. If I have to go, or if you ask me to, I'll walk away after saying goodbye."
Tyler' finger closed around his. "Walk slow," he said. "So I can catch up with you.

Jane Davitt

#51. Fairness, he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

Mitch Albom

#52. My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?"
"I don't care," he said, and kissed me.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#53. As much as it hurts my soul to say this, and yes, I believe I have a soul full of glitter and rainbows, I don't think you're giving him enough credit, he said, and if I wasn't already sitting down, I would've fallen down.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#54. Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole."
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

Rick Riordan

#55. When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

Constance Bowman Reid

#56. You might be my mate, he said, but you remain your own person. You decide your fate - your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever.

Sarah J. Maas

#57. Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!"
He honestly thought it mattered.

Diana Gabaldon

#58. From the Byzantines, Pound derived his non-violent formula for controlling the Jews. "The answer to the Jewish problem is simple," he said. "Keep them out of banking, out of education, out of government.

Eustace Mullins

#59. If the Danes come," he spoke to Wulfhere, "you must let me fight."
"You don't know how to fight."
"Then you must teach me." He slid Serpent-Breath back into the scabbard. "Wessex needs a king who can fight," he said, "instead of pray.

Bernard Cornwell

#60. I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.

LaMarcus Aldridge

#61. Now there's a power," he said. "Harnessing the lightning! The dream of mankind!"
The Unnamed Boat surged forward.
"Is it? It's not my dream," said Didactylos. "I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters.

Terry Pratchett

#62. Ms. Baird," he said, using her formal title because it made her pay attention, "have I or have I not made it clear that I would like you in my bed?

Nalini Singh

#63. Edge?"
"E.D.G.E.," he said, helping him to the waiting helicopter. "Elite Digital and Global Enforcement."

"Never heard of it," Jake said.

"That's the idea," the man said with a grin.

Trish Loye

#64. You're a bastard," I said.
"Uhtred," he began, but could find nothing more to say.
"You're a piece of weasel-shit," I said, "you're an earsling."
"I'm a king," he said, trying to regain his dignity.
"So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

Bernard Cornwell

#65. You're beautiful," he said.
"I'm as big as cow."
"A beautiful cow."
She chuckled. "I'm fat."
"You're not fat."
(Stella & Beau)

Rachel Gibson

#66. Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge."
"Okay," he said, and I kept on walking.

Edward Conlon

#67. There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

Scott Adams

#68. After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#69. I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

Jessica Simpson

#70. The Dean leaned toward an ear.
"I was saying," he said loudly, "that we didn't know the meaning of the word 'sex' when we were young."
"That's true. That's very true," said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. "Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember?

Terry Pratchett

#71. I'm jealous of the cherries that have been in your mouth," he said, "that they get to make your lips so red." He kissed her softly, teasing her tongue with his, a lustful wet caress, and Austen was suspended in air. "I'm jealous of every single day before today that I didn't get to spend with you.

C.J. Carlyon

#72. Hank, this is great."
"Yes."
He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

Ayn Rand

#73. The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. "Mawidge," he said. "Vewy old.

William Goldman

#74. I am of today and of the has-been (he said then); but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

Michael Finkel

#76. I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

Cassandra Clare

#77. I had a feeling you'd like that," he said with a satisfied grin.
"Why do I feel it ... everywhere?"
"Everywhere?" he murmured. His fingers moved between her legs. "Or here?"
"Everywhere," she said breathlessly, "but there most of all.

Julia Quinn

#78. You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.

Carl Sagan

#79. And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

Val Guest

#80. He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

Monica Lewinsky

#81. I never wanted anyone else, T.J. I just wanted what was best for you."
"You are what's best for me," he said, cradling my head in his arms, his legs intertwined with mine. "I'm not going anywhere, Anna. This is right where I want to be.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#82. Killing you," he said. It was almost freeing, not being able to lie.

V.E Schwab

#83. Tassels," I said in disgust.
Alex, too, was turned in his seat.
"You guys," he said. "He's still moving."
Disappointed, I said, "Kayla, back up over him.

Meg Cabot

#84. Daughter, he said in a voice like old wood breaking, can you ever forgive me?
I could only answer his question with one of my own. Putting my hand over his mouth, I whispered, Which of us would not sell all we had to stay alive?

Emma Donoghue

#85. Martha Raye slipped up to the colonel and she said, 'Sir, where do we eat?' He said, 'You mess with the men.' 'I know that,' she said, 'but where do we eat?

Elizabeth Berg

#86. Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding.

Charlaine Harris

#87. You're a Dhampir," I breathed.
"So are you." he teased.
"Yeah, but I just thought - "
"That I was human? Because of the bite marks?"
"Yeah." I admitted, No point in lying.
"We all have to survive," he said "And dhamphirs are good at figuring ways out to.

Richelle Mead

#88. First of all, I'm not narcissistic." When she opened her lips to argue, he said, "I know Narkissos of Thespiae
while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around.

Kresley Cole

#89. I'm jealous as fuck," he said, his voice rough. "That's not really my thing, but it's the truth. I don't much like the idea of some other man touchin' your sweet ass, and if one of them tries to stick his cock into that pretty little cunt of yours, I'm gonna cut it off.

Joanna Wylde

#90. I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones September 23, 1779. He said this when his ship was on fire and sinking.

Steven Atwood

#91. It makes sense that there's a family history for your condition," he said. "Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?" Blue stood up. "It's like boot camp. They can't hack it. Poor things." "Poor me," he said.

Maggie Stiefvater

#92. Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!

Alan Goldsher

#93. I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things."
"I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.

Cassandra Clare

#94. Shame, he said, caused me to hide. "And that," he said, "is a problem. Because the more we hide, the harder it is to be known. And we have to be known to connect.

Donald Miller

#95. If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

Terence McKenna

#96. Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'

Craig Ferguson

#97. If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.

Brian Andreas

#98. I'm sorry, too,' she said.
'For what?'
'For acting mad at you all the time.'
'It's okay,' he said, 'sometimes I like it.'
'But not always.

Rainbow Rowell

#99. I like your glasses," he said. "I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me ... Cather.

Rainbow Rowell

#100. Isn't it wonderful that our bodies can give us so much pleasure? he said to her once, quite simply. They were happy and radiantly innocent. They were both incapable of the conception that joy is sin.

Ayn Rand