Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

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

— Emily Henry

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “I love him so much. I love him more than I did yesterday, and I already know tomorrow I’ll love him even more, because every piece of him he gives me is another to fall in love with.”

— Emily Henry

8. “Wonder how I could ever stop feeling lonely when no one could ever know me all the way. When I could never peer into someone else’s brain and see it all.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

11. “But the truth is, if I could take it all back, I would. I’d do anything to go back to that happy place, outside of time, where nothing from real life can touch us.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

14. “He was my first date, my first kiss, my first boyfriend. The first man – or boy – I said ‘I love you’ to.”

— Emily Henry

15. “And not knowing something doesn’t make a person stupid, Wyn.” “Oh,” he says, amused. “Then what does?” After a moment’s thought, I say, “An unwillingness to learn.”

— Emily Henry

16. “Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time.”

— Emily Henry

17. “If we drank green smoothies like we drink alcohol, we would live forever.”

— Emily Henry

18. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

22. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

24. “You can take the city person out of the city, but the city will always be in them. I think it’s the same for sisters. Anywhere we go, we won’t leave each other. We couldn’t even if we wanted to. And we don’t. We never will.”

— Emily Henry

25. “You have no idea how badly I wish I could be enough.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

27. “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.”

— Emily Henry

28. “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.”

— Emily Henry

29. “Sometimes a change of scenery is all that’s needed to get a little perspective.”

— Emily Henry

30. “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.”

— Emily Henry

31. “It’s not your job to make me happy, okay? You can’t make anyone happy. I’m happy just because you exist, and that’s as much of my happiness as you have control over.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

33. “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.”

— Emily Henry

34. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

37. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

39. “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.”

— Emily Henry

40. “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.”

— Emily Henry

41. “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.”

— Emily Henry

42. “I want my life to be like-like making pottery. I want to enjoy it while it’s happening, not just for where it might get me eventually.”

— Emily Henry

43. “I understood then, the immense honor it is to hurt like she does. To have loved someone so much that the taste of maple syrup can make you cry and laugh at the same time.”

— Emily Henry

44. “You know that feeling, when you’re watching someone sleep and you feel overwhelmed with joy that they exist?”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

46. “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.”

— Emily Henry

47. “Everything is because of you.”

— Emily Henry

48. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

50. “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.”

— Emily Henry