Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Happy. Not giddy or overjoyed, but that low, steady level of happiness that, in the best periods of life, rides underneath everything else, a buffer between you and the world you are walking over.”

— Emily Henry

2. “Just because you don’t know what you want yet, it doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to want.”

— Emily Henry

3. “I always like that thought, the way two people really did seem to grow into one. Or at least two overlapping parts, trees with tangled roots.”

— Emily Henry

4. “I told you so you’d see how this whole world was made for you, how it warms when you smile and aches when you hurt. I told you so you could stop being afraid.”

— Emily Henry

5. “Growing up is going to hurt. Only you can decide if the pain is worth the love.”

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6. “Sometimes life is very hard. Sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the world wants to take.”

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7. “You are in all of my happiest places.”

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8. “I’d take a swift beheading over that death by a thousand paper cuts, every time.”

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9. “Apparently, there’s someone for everyone.”

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10. “When I think about you, January, and I think about doing laundry with you and trying terrible green juice cleanses and going to antiques malls with you, I only feel happy. The world looks different than I ever thought it could be, and I don’t want to look for what’s broken or what could go wrong. I don’t want to brace myself for the worst and miss out on being with you.”

— Emily Henry

11. “When I watch you sleep,” he said shakily, “I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”

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12. “He fit so perfectly in the love story I’d imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”

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13. “If you think the story has a sad ending, it’s because it’s not over yet.”

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14. “No,” he says quietly. “In every universe, it’s you for me. Even if it’s not me for you.”

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15. “Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back.”

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16. “People doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.”

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17. “For now, more swoon and less doom, babycakes.”

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18. “Being around people is exhausting. Being around Beau is like a really good version of being alone, as easy but more fun.”

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19. “Sometimes you change your mind about a person. Or your feelings for them change, or they change, or, I don’t know, you just want to make a different decision. And that’s always okay. You don’t owe anyone anything.”

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20. “We may be different, but in this moment we’re feeling the exact same thing: the sad kind of bliss where you realize, suddenly, how perfect your life really has been all along. So perfect it hurts, and you could let yourself weep if you wanted. So perfect that even though everything you know is ending, you truly believe life will continue to be beautiful, even – or maybe especially – in those pure moments of loss.”

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21. “I know feeling small gets to some people, he had once told me, but I kine of like it takes the pressure off when you’re just one life of six billion at any given moment. And when you’re going through something hard – at the time, Mom was doing chemo – it’s nice to know you’re not even close to the only one.”

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22. “Letting go is not forgetting. It’s opening your eyes to the good that grew from the bad, the life that blooms from decay.”

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23. “And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.”

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24. “I wish that change weren’t so hard, or that I didn’t feel so thoroughly that I need it in order to make room to live or space in my head to think.”

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25. “Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it’s heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.”

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26. “I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume. It would always be with me. Everywhere I went, he’d be there too, and so I’d always feel like myself.”

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27. “Again and again he told me I wasn’t myself. But he was wrong. I was the same me I’d always been. I’d just stopped trying to glow in the dark for him, or anyone else.”

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28. “I promise you. I promise you the stars. I promise you the lake and falls, coywolves and robins. I promise earth and heaven: I will love you long after the last human has taken his last breath. When the stars burn out and the oceans freeze over and the whole world is ash and dust and ice, our names will still be carved into this tree of life, side by side, and I’ll still be loving you.”

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29. “Love, after all, was often made not of shiny things but practical ones. Ones that grew old and rusted only to be repaired and polished.”

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30. “That was what I’d always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn’t move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.”

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31. “My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.”

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32. “Maybe for some people, falling in love is an explosion, fireworks against a black sky and tremors rumbling through the earth. One blazing moment. For me, it’s been happening for months, as quietly as a seed sprouting. Love sneaked through me, spreading roots around my heart, until, in the blink of an eye, the green of it broke the dirt: hidden one moment, there the next.”

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33. “Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”

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34. “Funny thing about belonging to two worlds: Sometimes you feel like you belong in zero.”

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35. “They all do, I think. You are in all of my happiest places. You are where my mind goes when it needs to be soothed.”

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36. “When people pity you, it’s like they don’t realize that the exact same thing is coming for them. And then I feel embarrassed and uncomfortable and have to pity them, because, like, do you not realize that it’s always someone’s turn? You haven’t noticed everyone gets a few blows that seem so big you can’t survive them?”

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37. “To my parents, who are proof of fate’s strong, if animatronic, hand.”

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38. “You’re a beautiful and wonderful and sensual and strong golden fawn, she says, followed by That was supposed to say “my best friend,” but my phone...”

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39. “To love a handful of people very well, that’s a good life.”

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40. “You’re like gravity. Everything keeps spinning, but my mind’s always got one hand on you.”

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41. “I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you’ll have one of joy too.”

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42. “People were complicated. They weren’t math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck.”

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43. “And sometimes, we don’t talk about things because we don’t want to be comforted. We don’t want anyone to tell us it wasn’t our fault, or that they forgive us, or that we did the best we could. We want to hold on to that pain because we think that’s what we deserve. We worry that if we let it go, we’re dishonoring it.”

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44. “No one had chosen Gus. From the time he was a kid, no one had chosen him, and he was embarrassed by that, like it meant something about him. I wanted to tell him it didn’t. That it wasn’t because he was broken, but because everyone else was. But I couldn’t get any words out. I couldn’t do anything but stare at him – standing there, out of steam, his chest rising and falling with heavy breaths – and ache for him and hate the world a little for chewing him up.”

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45. “I hear him in the creak and groan of the floorboards as the summer nights stretch them, can visualize him sitting at the foot of my bed, saying, Other houses have support beams and foundations. Ours has bones and a heartbeat. I.”

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46. “I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person. When I think about being with you every day, no part of me feels claustrophobic.”

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47. “Thresholds are more than randomly chosen divisions between rooms. They’re places where change – transformation – happens.”

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48. “I was just a moment, and you made me forever.”

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49. “But it’s also about the cost of love. To grow up is to love. To love is to die.”

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50. “The song is sad, heartbreaking even, and I’m overcome with frustration that I don’t have a better word to describe it. It occurs to me then that Grandmother would. She’d have a whole story that would sound exactly like this song.”

— Emily Henry