Top 150 Emery Lord Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’ve prowled the dirtiest back alleys of sadness, okay? And I know what it’s like to fight for your life on those mean streets. So if you need someone to vent to or someone to be quiet with or someone to talk your ear off, I can be that person. I’m not scared of the dark places.”

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2. “Depression, it settles like a shadow over your body while you sleep, and it mutes every frequency into blankness, into fog. Everyone things you can’t laugh when you’re depressed, but I couldn’t cry either, because I couldn’t FEEL.”

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3. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.”

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4. “His eyes are somewhere between gray and blue, and his hair is somewhere between brown and blond, and I am somewhere between hostile and attracted.”

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5. “In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.”

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6. “With our arms around each other, I almost believed that strength could travel between us like the heat of our bodies. Nothing, not even sadness, could be greater than the sum of us.”

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7. “My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it. Jonah Daniels has his own grief, but he doesn’t understand what it feels like to waste away in a castle dungeon where you have been chained to crumbling walls. And, when the dragons close in, you only think: Good. Let this be over.”

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8. “I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life – no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment.”

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9. “Maybe in my next life, I’ll be a wave in the ocean, and you’ll be a mountain, and we’ll spend years and years brushing up against each other. You’ll shift so painfully slowly, and some days I’ll crash right into you and other days I’ll approach gently, licking your sides. That sounds like us, doesn’t it?”

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10. “You can be okay again. Just a different kind of okay than before.”

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11. “Sometimes I feel empty like a new canvas.”

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12. “I keep wondering if it’ll ever hurt less. This... this hole in our lives.” “Oh, I imagine it’ll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it’s still complete somehow- still lovely.”

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13. “And I say a final last prayer, this one in gratitude that there are people in the world who will protect kids with a fire that makes them sprint after cars, fight systems, curse with rage. It’s enough to make you believe. Maybe not in symbols; maybe not in gods. But certainly in people.”

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14. “That’s the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn’t mean it failed. A cherry pie isn’t a failure just because you eat it all. It’s perfect for what it is, and then it’s gone. And exchanging the truest parts of yourself – all the things you are – with someone? What a slice of life. One I’ll carry with me into every single someday.”

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15. “Human hearts are like noble little ants, able to carry so much more weight than you’d expect.”

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16. “I don’t mind being introduced to people’s skeletons firsthand, in person. I more than don’t mind it. I prefer to reach right into the closet and shake their bony hands and say hello for myself.”

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17. “The morning sun has edged past the horizon line, casting shadows of the leaves like lace on the sidewalk. Flowers burst throughout every inch of the town- fuschia roses crawling over trellises, forsythia blazing like yellow fireworks. As I walk down the sidewalk, the trees undress above me, dropping pale pink petals like a slow burlesque.”

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18. “Nothing, not even sadness could be greater than the sum of us.”

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19. “Do you want me to beg you? Do you want me to say please? Then this song is the rest of my pride, girl. This song is me down on my knees.”

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20. “Sometimes we get it wrong the first time. But you only have to get it right once.”

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21. “Everything else will fall into place. Just live your life.”

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22. “I’m not sure why I feel lonely instead of just alone.”

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23. “Should have, should have, should have. I’m sick of those words biting at my ankles no matter where I walk.”

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24. “We’re born alone, and we die alone.”

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25. “Howidoono?” Dee tries to ask, but there’s a mound of Brown Butter Almond Brittle ice cream on her tongue. “How did you know I needed this?” He gives her an “oh please” look. “I have a sister and a girl best friend. This is not amateur hour.”

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26. “Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me.”

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27. “Later in my room, I lift up my dress and twist to see the rainbow splotch of lotus on my side. And it occurs to me, what if I stopped hating it? What if the tattoo and the scar and this summer’s freckles are my patina? Wabi-Sabi says rust and faded paint hold beauty. So what if I let these marks be passport stamps from where I’ve been – one’s that don’t determine a damn thing about where I’m going next?”

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28. “After all, the night sky is a mess of stars – a million fireflies crammed into infinity. But the mess becomes a map once you know how to use it.”

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29. “But my mom says the best revenge is living well, and I believe her.”

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30. “And exchanging the truest parts of yourself – all the things you are – with someone? What a slice of life. One I’ll carry with me into every single someday.”

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31. “I take a step closer to her because that’s my impulse – to be near her.”

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32. “When does it stop-the longing to be mothered?”

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33. “Sadness still fell – the soft pitter-patter of spring rain – but each small joy opened like an umbrella right above me.”

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34. “I would crawl to wherever you were, emotionally, so that you wouldn’t feel alone.”

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35. “My cheeks are wet, but oh, my heart – it is so full.”

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36. “It’s too damn hard to watch someone else get what you want.”

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37. “I close my eyes, trying to decipher how it feels.”

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38. “There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. What right did I have, when he was gone?”

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39. “Because with true friends, no one is keeping score. But it still feels good to repay them – even in the tiniest increments.”

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40. “That’s the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn’t mean it failed.”

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41. “You have a big life ahead of you, sweet girl. And beginning again gets easier with each step.”

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42. “I swear his looks are pure Darwinism. If he wasn’t so cute, someone would have killed him for being annoying by now.”

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43. “We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”

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44. “Of all Tessa’s qualities, that was maybe the one I admired the most: she knew how to sit inside my sadness with me.”

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45. “Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know.”

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46. “The glow of my birthday candles and the fairy lights would have been more than enough. But Jonah Daniels? He lit up my whole world.”

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47. “It was the baptism of myself, the renewal of me and by me. The water felt, finally, like it could wash away the dust of the past, cleaning off the second skin of sadness.”

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48. “So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me.”

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49. “I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity.”

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50. “Maybe we were dying planets, Jonah, being drawn into the darkness.” I hold my right palm against his cheek, and I wish I could touch him with both my hands. “When we collided, we bounced each other back into orbit. And now we have to do that – we have to return to our own paths because that’s what we gave each other.”

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