Top 150 Emery Lord Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Of course. You’ve had your cry, but now you’ll pick yourself up and keep living your life. Doubly, for that sweet boy. Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra, too. That’s how we honor them.”

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

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103. “Live your life.”

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

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “Understanding doesn’t make me feel any less lied to.”

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

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “We’re all Elizabeths when we need to be.”

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it.”

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

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

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

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

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “I like the way the word feels against my mouth – soft, unassuming, even soothing.”

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

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

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

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

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132. “The idea of moving forward is hard. But everything you really need? You can take it with you.”

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133. “There’s a vein of hopeful cynicism in everything you write. You’re trying to believe, but helplessly waiting for the anvil.”

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134. “His smile doesn’t hide his own aching chest.”

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135. “Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself.”

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136. “And that’s why I don’t get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we’re older but we’re not the grown-ups who seem too far away to understand. I tuck that thought inside me, warm and small like balled hands inside hoodie pockets. Beneath the beech trees and sugar maples, feet crunching against dead leaves, I hope for strength. Because as much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold onto.”

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137. “When it all closes in, there are only two kinds of people: best friends and everyone else.”

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138. “When I would have curled up in my bed, my mind battling this impossible question: How could someone be here one day and be gone, forever, the next? The question held me to the ground, demanding answers, and I still had none.”

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139. “This is because she doesn’t know about me picking a fight with Shruggy Jesus or rolling around topless with Lukas. My soul has already put on a blinker for the Hell exit, and now I live at hippie camp. That’s like sending me into the express lane.”

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140. “When I joined QuizBowl, I hadn’t expected to like it so much. But then, that’s the sweetness of trying something new.”

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141. “You’re always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.”

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142. “More of my life has been affected by his absence than his presence, and that’s a strange thing to deal with.”

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143. “We sat there in our flower crowns until the world went dark, until we were half-sick from sugar but still laughing, laughing, laughing like the almost-invincible girls we were. Happy.”

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144. “Confidimus stellarum.”

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145. “I didn’t want to die. I was just trying to feel something.”

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146. “The girl squints at me and I realize I have had seventeen years to become a cooler person. What have I been doing all this time?”

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147. “Ryan Chase was my eighth-grade collage, aspirational and wide-eyed. But Max was the first bite of grilled cheese on a snowy day, the easy fit of my favorite jeans, that one old song that made it onto every playlist. Peanut-butter Girl Scout cookies instead of an ornate cake. Not glamorous or idealized or complicated. Just me.”

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148. “I think I’ve loved you since that first day.”

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149. “Every once in a while, her temper flashes. It’s like she’s exhausted from beating down her demons.”

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150. “She rediscovered me under all that rubble, and that means I’ll always be a little bit hers.”

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