Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I thought being family just meant you have limitless time to hold grudges.”

— Emily Henry

452. “Better? he asked. It terrified and thrilled me how, with that one quiet word, he could make my insides shimmer, shake me up like a snow globe.”

— Emily Henry

453. “Those were the endings I found solace in. The ones that said, Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too.”

— Emily Henry

454. “I think,” I whisper, “you’re one of the least disappointing people I’ve ever met.”

— Emily Henry

455. “I didn’t know it was possible to miss a person this much while she was sitting right next to you, so badly everything in you aches.”

— Emily Henry

456. “I’m good!” my mouth says. You are VERY bad, actually, my brain argues.”

— Emily Henry

457. “I already told you, Nora,” he murmurs, his fingers splaying on my stomach, just beneath my shirt. “I’ll go anywhere with you.”

— Emily Henry

458. “I don’t drink,” Blake says. “No worries,” I say, “I’ll drink yours.”

— Emily Henry

459. “Like we were costars in a movie and when the cameras weren’t on, we didn’t have all that much to talk about. But we wanted the same life, you know?”

— Emily Henry

460. “Maybe I wanted someone to understand I’m a complete person, and not just someone else’s mistake.”

— Emily Henry

461. “If I went to a shelter to pick up a foster dog, there’s no guarantee I woudn’t come home having adopted six of them and a wild coyote.”

— Emily Henry

462. “I couldn’t have changed anything, but I could have been there. I could have loved him.”

— Emily Henry

463. “Well, that was it. I’m in love, may I rest in peace.”

— Emily Henry

464. “It was crazy that I remembered that night in college so vividly that I knew he’d touched me just like this. That first touch when we met on the dance floor, featherlight and melting-point hot, careful, intentional.”

— Emily Henry

465. “What a beautiful, twisted brain you have, Nora.”

— Emily Henry

466. “Maybe if my parents hadn’t been so completely encouraging of every facet of my brothers’ and my individualism, I would’ve had better luck.”

— Emily Henry

467. “I can’t explain it. Do you feel it? Now that you’re old enough to read this, and to know who you are, do you have a word for the thing that evades me? The thing that makes you different from anything else?”

— Emily Henry

468. “Again I feel that heart-pinch sensation, like I’m missing her, like all our best moments are behind us.”

— Emily Henry

469. “He’s fully reading a book at the bar.”

— Emily Henry

470. “I knew the only thing more painful than being without him would be being together knowing I no longer truly had him.”

— Emily Henry

471. “A cottage on the rocky shoreline, with knotty pine floorboards and windows that are nearly always open. The smell of evergreens and brine wafting in on the breeze, and white linen drapes lifting in a lazy dance. The burble of a coffee maker, and that first deep pull of cold ocean air as we step out onto the flagstone patio, steaming mugs in hand.”

— Emily Henry

472. “Everyone fights with the people they love, Harriet,” he says. “What matters is how you do it.”

— Emily Henry

473. “Years later, when it’s late and I can’t sleep for the phantom ache in my chest, I pull this memory out and turn it over. I think, We did the right thing. We let each other go. That too is a kind of comfort.”

— Emily Henry

474. “All the quiet made me strain for hints and clues until I became an expert in my parents’ moods.”

— Emily Henry

475. “I want any universe but that one. All the rest, where it’s him and me, scattered across time and space, finding our way to each other again and again, the one constant, the only essential.”

— Emily Henry

476. “The way your writing always makes the world seem brighter, and the people in it a little braver.”

— Emily Henry

477. “And that’s how it is in real life too. You can love someone and still know the future you’d have with them wouldn’t work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.”

— Emily Henry

478. “I used to think it was because people like me don’t get those endings. And asking for it, hoping for it, is a way to lose something you’ve never even had.”

— Emily Henry

479. “As he watches me, he murmurs, “I’ve just always wanted to see a shark attack up close. So much blood.”

— Emily Henry

480. “Tomorrow we will love each other a little more, and the next day, and the next day.”

— Emily Henry

481. “I love you, he tells me in a dozen different ways, and I say it back every time.”

— Emily Henry

482. “How is it possible for two people who belong together to belong in two different places?”

— Emily Henry

483. “His knee bumped mine. I bumped his back.”

— Emily Henry

484. “Everyone here looks like they came straight from climbing Everest or doing drugs in a Coachella yurt.”

— Emily Henry

485. “But even so, why did I care what he thought? I shouldn’t need everyone to believe in or want the things I believed in and wanted.”

— Emily Henry

486. “And I knew how to read it because it was a smile I’d been practicing for a year: Can you believe I was so stupid? Don’t worry. I know better now.”

— Emily Henry

487. “I wanted my mom, and I missed my lying dad.”

— Emily Henry

488. “Between the three of us, we’d be fine. It’d be fun. Magic. That’s what those days felt like. Not how Libby made it sound. Sure, there were problems, but what about all those days lying on our bellies in the Coney Island sand reading until the sun set? Or nights spent in a row on our sofa, eating junk food and watching old movies?”

— Emily Henry

489. “What about traveling?” I ask in the lull between songs. “What about it?” he says. “Love or hate?” His mouth presses into an even line as he considers. “Hard to say,” he replies. “I’ve never really been anywhere. Read about a lot of places, just haven’t seen any of them yet.” “Me neither,” I say. “Not yet.” He thinks for another moment. “Love,” he says. “I’m guessing love.” “Yeah.” I nod. “Me too.”

— Emily Henry

490. “He was right about one thing, though. He can’t tell me what I want.”

— Emily Henry

491. “Dads, as a concept, have always felt as irrelevant to my daily life as astronauts. I know they’re out there, but I rarely think about them. Suddenly, though, I can almost imagine it. I can almost miss it, this thing I never had.”

— Emily Henry

492. “I’ve never really felt alone since I met you. I don’t think I’ll ever feel truly alone in this world again as long as you’re in it.”

— Emily Henry

493. “I realized that there were too many books in this world and not enough time.”

— Emily Henry

494. “UR doing what’s right for U. That’s all U can do.”

— Emily Henry

495. “It could still happen. Life’s long.”

— Emily Henry

496. “Does anyone ever want to finish a good book?”

— Emily Henry

497. “I don’t think I’ve ever loved the world like you do. I remember being afraid of it. And then angry with it.”

— Emily Henry

498. “I don’t know how to love someone as much as I love you.”

— Emily Henry

499. “There’s that Poppy, who’s experiencing it all and having the most magical night of her life. And then there’s the one who’s already missing it, who’s watching this all happen from some point in the distance, knowing I can never go back and do it all over again.”

— Emily Henry

500. “When she connected with someone, she opened up like a rose to expose the most tender, pure, selfless, and loyal heart I’d ever known.”

— Emily Henry