Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I’d do anything for you, but – please don’t ask me to if you’re not sure.”

— Emily Henry

452. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”

— Emily Henry

453. “If she can’t be there, there’s no point in dreaming at all.”

— Emily Henry

454. “Please don’t apologize for letting me know you.”

— Emily Henry

455. “I wanted to be special, Harriet,” he says. “And since I wasn’t, I settled for trying to make everyone love me. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but it’s true. I spent my whole life chasing things and people who could make me feel like I mattered.”

— Emily Henry

456. “Con: Do I really want my professional nemesis texting me Bigfoot erotica? Pro: Yes I do.”

— Emily Henry

457. “Then again, sometimes when you guess about people, you end up very wrong.”

— Emily Henry

458. “We are two fundamentally incompatible people with absolutely no need to impress each other.”

— Emily Henry

459. “I spent all last summer thinking I’d never be happy again, and now, a year later, I still feel sick and worried and angry, but at moments, I’m also happy.”

— Emily Henry

460. “It’s June in January, because I’m in love.”

— Emily Henry

461. “You’re home to me, Alex. And I think I’m that for you too.”

— Emily Henry

462. “I can just tell he doesn’t get it,” Alex said. “Get what?” I asked. “You,” he said. “He has no idea how lucky he is.”

— Emily Henry

463. “I knew how stupid and melodramatic it sounded, but with him, it was always so hard to rein myself in, to say anything but the absolute truth of how I felt. And worst of all, I hadn’t even known that was how I felt until this moment. Alex’s presence had a way of drawing the truth right to my surface.”

— Emily Henry

464. “It’s one thing to accept that the person I love most is fundamentally unknowable to me; it’s another to accept that she doesn’t quite see me either. She doesn’t trust me, not enough to share what’s going on, not enough to lean on me or let me comfort her.”

— Emily Henry

465. “In college, I’d thought he was lazy about everything except writing. Now I wondered if he was simply tired, if life had beaten him into a permanent slouch, folded him over himself so no one could get at that soft center.”

— Emily Henry

466. “You have made me a new person: January’s father. And I know this is who I will be for the rest of my life.”

— Emily Henry

467. “Then maybe we should enjoy our happy-for-now.”

— Emily Henry

468. “Where his thigh not quite touches mine, it feels like a piping hot knife held against butter.”

— Emily Henry

469. “The world’s always going to need surgeons, but it’s going to need bowls too. Forget what you think anyone else wants. What do you want?”

— Emily Henry

470. “You try to be fair, to see things from other people’s points of view, and sometimes that makes it hard for you to see them from your own, but you have one.”

— Emily Henry

471. “You load the dishwasher wrong,” I say. He breaks into a smile. “Wrong?” “Fine, not wrong,” I say. “But in a way that I hate.”

— Emily Henry

472. “I had to admit there was something singularly hilarious about line dancing angrily.”

— Emily Henry

473. “Nine pages, about a boy who was born with a pair of wings. All his life, people tell him that this means he should try to fly. He’s afraid to. When he finally does, jumps off a two-story roof, he falls. He breaks his legs and wings. He never gets them reset. As he recovers, the bone heals in its misshapen form. Finally, people stop telling him that he must’ve been born to fly. Finally, he’s happy.”

— Emily Henry

474. “That is what I’m looking for every time I flip to the back of a book, compulsively checking for proof that in a life where so many things have gone wrong, there can be beauty too. That there is always hope, no matter what.”

— Emily Henry

475. “The lake froze so far out that we could even walk on it past the lighthouse where my father had once ridden his tricycle into. And what was more, the water froze so high and the snow piled on top of it such that we could walk right up to the top of the lighthouse, stand on it like it was part of some lost civilization underneath us, Gus’s arm hooked around my neck as he hummed, It’s June in January, because I’m in love.”

— Emily Henry

476. “I used to write these notes in a kind of panic, like every experience I hoped to someday have was a living thing growing in my body, stretching branches out to push on my insides, demanding to break out of me.”

— Emily Henry

477. “Time to panic?” he asks. “Not yet,” I say. “Try to sleep.” “Because I need to be well rested when I meet Death.”

— Emily Henry

478. “You have the red splotches, Nora,” he teases, drawing his lips over my throat. “Are you mad at me?”

— Emily Henry

479. “Halfway through the tour, we skip out and go to Cafe Lalo instead, determined to sit just where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks did in You’ve Got Mail.”

— Emily Henry

480. “And to answer your question about the best-case scenario for a love story, yes. If I were hit by a meteor while in the car with you, I would still think I went out on a high note.”

— Emily Henry

481. “That these are the glory days,” Cleo says. “That we’re as close as we used to be, when the truth is, it’s different. We’re different.”

— Emily Henry

482. “A faint smile flickered across his lips, then fell as he thought. ′ I don’t think I’ve ever loved the world like you do. I remember being afraid of it. And then angry with it. And then just – deciding not to feel too strongly about it.”

— Emily Henry

483. “Sometimes – sometimes good, or at least decent, people do bad things. And sometimes they actually believe they’re doing what’s right.”

— Emily Henry

484. “I fought a smile, stifled a flutter in my stomach. A smile and a flutter weren’t enough for me. I was done with secrets and lies, no matter how pretty.”

— Emily Henry

485. “Oh, no, it wasn’t a medical procedure,” I say. “It was an Etsy spell.”

— Emily Henry

486. “This is what I want for the rest of my life. To see new places. To meet new people. To try new things. I don’t feel lost or out of place here. There’s no Linfield to escape or long, boring classes to dread going back to. I’m anchored only in this moment.”

— Emily Henry

487. “He made the world open up around me, like there were colors I’d never seen, new levels of happiness I couldn’t have imagined.”

— Emily Henry

488. “Happy for now.” I tasted the words, rolled them over the back of my tongue like wine. The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living. And I was. Happy for now.”

— Emily Henry

489. “I’d had the conversation I’d been dreading all summer. I’d gone into the rooms I’d kept closed. I’d fallen in love and felt my heart break, and I’d heard than I wanted to hear, and I was on my feet. The beautiful lies were all gone. Destroyed. And I was still upright.”

— Emily Henry

490. “When I look back up at him, he’s beaming at me, and I think, I love you more now than I ever have.”

— Emily Henry

491. “Happy endings don’t matter if the getting there sucks.”

— Emily Henry

492. “Everyone wants a golden retriever,” he says in a low voice. As ridiculous a statement as it is, he looks serious, concerned.”

— Emily Henry

493. “I always figured that when I grew up, I’d leave my hometown and discover other people like me somewhere else.”

— Emily Henry

494. “There were still pieces of us we so badly wished each other could see and yet couldn’t make ourselves ask for, and there was anger and resentment and it still all hurt, but right now, we were here, and if we stayed long enough, things might start to heal, even a little bit.”

— Emily Henry

495. “Falling’s the part that takes your breath away. It’s the part when you can’t believe the person standing in front of you both exists and happened to wander into your path. It’s supposed to make you feel lucky to be alive, exactly when and where you are.”

— Emily Henry

496. “It’s okay,′ he whispers, rocking me back and forth. ‘You’re not alone,’ he promises, and beneath it I hear the unsaid rest: I’m here.”

— Emily Henry

497. “I can’t be a break from your real life and I won’t be the thing that keeps you from having what you want.”

— Emily Henry

498. “Suddenly, though, I can also imagine it. I can almost miss it, this thing I never had.”

— Emily Henry

499. “Sonya. The name hit my stomach like a hammer. Before I’d even seen her, my mouth went dry. My vision fuzzed at the corners.”

— Emily Henry

500. “As soon as I hit send, I snap to my senses. Why, of all the words available to me, is this what I said? Maybe my brain is organized by the Dewey decimal system, but right now all the shelves seem to be on fire.”

— Emily Henry