Top 150 Emery Lord Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”

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54. “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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55. “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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56. “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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57. “I don’t feel like being touched by anyone or anything except the clouds.”

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58. “I vaguely remember a story about a woman who looked back while fleeing a broken city. She turned into a pillar of salt. A harsh fate, but I got the point. You can’t look back when you’re escaping disaster. You can’t hope that someone will come after you, either.”

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59. “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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60. “A rigid old tree like me – it snaps in a raging storm. The pliant tree bends in the rain and survives.”

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

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62. “Here is something I never expected to feel: love at first sight for an entire family. But life suprises you. It tells you to close your eyes and blow out the candles, and then sometimes smashes your face into the cake before you can even make a wish. But! Sometimes, every once in a while, you get your wish in. You wish for a boy to spend the summer with, and instead life gives you his whole beauiful family.”

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63. “Most complicated things in life are actually pretty simple at the core. We put so much extra nonsense in the middle that we can’t even see how easy it really is.”

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64. “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.”

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65. “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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66. “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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67. “My eyes fill, hot with tears. Because, apparently, casual crying is just something that I do now.”

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68. “Like you had been drowning, and the book was air.”

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69. “Live your life.”

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70. “It was easy for me to be honest with him because there was nothing to lose.”

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71. “It’s okay,” he says, eyes closed. He’s not even awake. “It’s okay.” He says these words even in his sleep, like he has said them so often that it’s his mouths default sentiment. All this pain in his life, all this care he doles out to everyone else. And yet he still cracks his broken heart open even wider-wide enough to fit me, too. I wonder how much this must hurt him, the toll it must take to give more of himself to me when he already has so little left to give.”

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72. “Jonah looks at me so admiringly, and my heart bounces like a pinball from my stomach to my throat to either side of my rib cage.”

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73. “Understanding doesn’t make me feel any less lied to.”

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74. “But the point is that trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too. The point is I’m trying to create good things in the midst of the bad. Grief or no grief. And in my case, it’s still somewhere in between.”

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75. “I wondered how we looked to the rest of the world. Young and silly, probably. I often had the distinct feeling that strangers watched us with annoyance, teenage girls with cotton candy lives. They could think that – that we were frothy and carefree. Would they ever guess how strong we were from carrying each other?”

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76. “I wasn’t even looking for him, so why do I feel found?”

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77. “As much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold on to.”

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78. “My hand clasped in his, I could not have known what would happen in the time that followed – how much we could love and hurt each other. How much we could each other. But even if I could have seen a glimpse of my future, Max was right. Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.”

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79. “But sometimes it seems unfair that I have to wait. Plenty of girls get their love stories starting now, starting years ago. Sometimes I even envy their heartbreak. At least they got to know what it was like, right?”

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80. “We’re all Elizabeths when we need to be.”

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81. “The point is that we already know it doesn’t work out, but we reread them anyway, because the good stuff that comes before the ending is worth it.” This.”

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82. “Seattle. It rains there a lot.” Well, this is going great. Conversationalist of the Year. I’ll just continue to recite basic facts about US cities until she wants to go out with me.”

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83. “If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it.”

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84. “If we could capture feelings like we capture pictures, none of us would ever leave our rooms. It would be so tempting to inhabit the good moments over and over again.”

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85. “I know it’s difficult to bare your heart, but it’s the least stupid thing in the world.”

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86. “I’ve been arguing on the side of a dirt road with a petulant singer who’s wearing a guitar on his back. This entire scene is a mess, and maybe we’re a mess, too. But it’s still him and still me, and there’s still that feeling of possibility – the one that sparks like a Roman candle inside me as his lips touch mine. And it’s a start.”

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87. “I’d rather carry on a conversation with myself than crawl the trenches of awkward nothingness.”

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88. “That’s the confusing part of falling for a friend: I loved him the way I loved Tessa, Morgan, and Kayleigh – protectively and completely. There were just so many feelings layered over that foundation.”

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89. “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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90. “Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.”

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91. “I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I’m stumbling forward.”

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92. “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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93. “I don’t remember that.” He shook his head. “Of course you don’t. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading.”

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94. “I used to think rewatching and rereading were embarrassingly boring pastimes. But there is something to be said for how comforting it is to already know what happens. There is no such luxury in real life. Soon.”

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95. “I like the way the word feels against my mouth – soft, unassuming, even soothing.”

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96. “I believe in people. In their resilience, in their goodness.”

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97. “He said the measure of the man is in those decisions. Do you keep yourself and your family safe in harbor, always? Or do you move forward and brave the storms?”

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98. “Every girl wants to be Dorothy Gale or maybe Glinda. I never wanted to be the tornado.”

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99. “There comes a time when you just have to put on some mascara and pull yourself together.”

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100. “Beginning again gets easier with each step.”

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