Top 150 Emery Lord Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “She’d tell her daughters someday: ‘If you don’t feel safe enough to yell back, you’re not safe enough. My babies, that is not love.”

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52. “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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53. “I wanted him for myself, but I want adventure for him, too – and for me.”

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54. “To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that “sad” people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.”

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55. “Hasn’t Daybreak shown me, day after day, that people can outlast unbelievable pain? That human hearts are like noble little ants, able to carry so much more weight than you’d expect.”

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56. “But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.”

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57. “I couldn’t master this kind of apathy, no matter how hard I tried. I was built to care – to notice, to overanalyze, to try – in a way that felt inalterable.”

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58. “We know there are three little words branded inside my heart: Jonah was here.”

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59. “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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60. “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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61. “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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62. “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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63. “It was only three years ago, but I looked so young, with that carefree smile. Like I had no idea how vicious the world could be.”

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

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

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

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67. “Girls will move across the country with a boyfriend they’ve known less than a year, and people think that’s normal because it’s romantic love. But living with your best friend? Or for Dee, staying close to her parents and brothers? I don’t think that’s weird or codependent. I think it’s basic: if you find people you love, you want to be near them.”

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

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

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

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72. “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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73. “I’m looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I’m gone, in the places where I found joy... ” -Page 81.”

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74. “The world moves twice as fast. Or twice as slow. It’s hard to tell when it feels like you’re watching your own life instead of living it.”

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75. “I don’t appreciate how often people hide their scars and doubts. Really, it’s not fair to people who are struggling, to go on believing that everyone else just has it totally together and never has one bad thought in their lives. Like, I know you people sometimes lie awake at night torturing yourself over the atrocities in this world and morality and meaning. I know you’re not just dreaming about riding a pink pony to your job as a cupcake taster.”

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76. “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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77. “I believe in nature, in science, in jazz, in dancing. And I believe in people. In their resilience, in their goodness. This is my credo; this is my hymn. Maybe it’s not enough for heaven, and maybe I’m even wrong. But if I can walk through the fire and, with blistered skin, still have faith in better days? I have to believe that’s good enough.”

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78. “Whose empire did you just overthrow?” My own.”

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79. “Jonah looks at me like I’m absolutely off my rocker. Or maybe it’s a look of amazement, like I’m a whole galaxy, glittering and vast and unchartered.”

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80. “I’d like to see everything for myself, doctor. The whole world.”

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81. “God, Jonah, keep up.”

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82. “I’m going to spend my whole summer changing the expressions on Jonah Daniels’s face.”

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83. “So maybe I don’t know what’ll happen. But it’s nice to have someone to not know with you.”

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84. “People out there are waiting to be on your side. But first you have to tell them where you are so they can come stand with you. I know verbalizing what you feel – what you need – can be intimidating if you’ve never done it before. But using your voice is a kind of strength that makes you powerful.”

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85. “It can be so freaking hard to tell if a girl is into you or if she thinks she just found her new best friend.”

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86. “Okay,” he said, leaning closer to me. “I have a proposition for you.” Dear God, let it be marriage, I thought.”

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87. “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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88. “And I want to be one of them. I want to be one of them so, so badly – to fit into this balance, their history, the wolf pack way of them. I see it now, why my mom wants that for me. I see how you can’t help but want it, if you get close enough to witness a group of friends knitted together like this.”

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89. “It’s easy to sort pieces that look alike. But it’s two differently shaped pieces that connect.”

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90. “So why do I wish I wish I wish I could take a picture of me and Jonah and send it to Ruby and Amala and say this is falling in love with someone GOOD and it is so good.”

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91. “Summer crushes happen all the time, right? Because you feel far away from the real world, everything seems more... possible. Every person seems more vital.”

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92. “A quiet realization would be more poetic – something as quotidian as showing back up. Choosing each other when there’s no fanfare.”

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93. “Give your family kisses from me, will you? I think I fell for all seven of you a little more every day. But mostly you, Jonah. Mostly, madly, beautifully you.”

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94. “I never could have let my heart feel as buoyant as my body, midair. 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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95. “He’s the ‘him’ in every sentence that really matters; he’s the ‘he’ in every song.”

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96. “You can ache for where you come from, and it’s homesickness. A relationship, and it’s heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that?”

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97. “This was never about getting there fast. This was about being sure of my steps forward. They always call it falling in love, but for me? It was also a choice.”

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98. “He chewed on his thumbnail, as if racking his brain for a solution to this equation. But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.”

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99. “Something I have longed for was right there, an arm’s reach away. Why couldn’t I just lift my hand? Too afraid that I’d have it slapped away, I guess.”

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100. “I wanted to live in Lucy and Ricky’s world, where the blunders of life were righted in one neat half hour. They made it look easy.”

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