Top 150 Emery Lord Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The idea of moving forward is hard. But everything you really need? You can take it with you.”

— Emery Lord

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

— Emery Lord

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

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

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105. “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.”

— Emery Lord

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

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107. “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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108. “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.”

— Emery Lord

109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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.”

— Emery Lord

113. “Confidimus stellarum.”

— Emery Lord

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

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115. “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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116. “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.”

— Emery Lord

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

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

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

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120. “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.”

— Emery Lord

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

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

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124. “Grief is slow. It’s like wringing out a washcloth. Even after you think it’s dry, a few more drops will form.”

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125. “God, Jonah, keep up.”

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

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128. “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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129. “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.”

— Emery Lord

130. “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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131. “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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132. “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.”

— Emery Lord

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

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

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “If you’re lucky, relationships – with family or friends or boyfriends – are limitless. There’s no maximum on how much you can love each other. The problem is, there’s also no limit to how much you can hurt each other.”

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141. “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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142. “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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143. “He’s the ‘him’ in every sentence that really matters; he’s the ‘he’ in every song.”

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144. “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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145. “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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146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “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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150. “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.”

— Emery Lord