Top 150 Emery Lord Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “I’d rather carry on a conversation with myself than crawl the trenches of awkward nothingness.”

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

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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “Every girl wants to be Dorothy Gale or maybe Glinda. I never wanted to be the tornado.”

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

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

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.”

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

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “If you want to push someone away, I strongly recommend rambling about death and theology. That oughta do it.”

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

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126. “Live your life.”

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “I like the way the word feels against my mouth – soft, unassuming, even soothing.”

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133. “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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134. “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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135. “It’s easy to sort pieces that look alike. But it’s two differently shaped pieces that connect.”

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

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

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138. “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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139. “God, Jonah, keep up.”

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

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141. “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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142. “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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143. “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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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. “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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147. “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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148. “There comes a time when you just have to put on some mascara and pull yourself together.”

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

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150. “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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