Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t know how to love someone as much as I love you,” he says. “It’s terrifying. And I get these bursts of thinking I can handle it and then I think about what it will do to me if I lose you, and I panic and pull away, and – I’ve never known if I’ll be able to make you happy.”

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52. “How are you supposed to believe right’s right and wrong’s wrong if everyone around you says the opposite? You’re supposed to think you’re smarter than all of them?”

— Emily Henry

53. “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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54. “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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55. “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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56. “To love a handful of people very well, that’s a good life.”

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

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

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60. “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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61. “If I had to pick one person to be in my corner, it’d be you. Every time.”

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62. “I sit on the edge of the bed, feeling the loneliness swell, not knowing whether it’s pressing against me from the outside or growing from within. either way, it’s inescapable, my oldest companion.”

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

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

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65. “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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66. “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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67. “But it’s also about the cost of love. To grow up is to love. To love is to die.”

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68. “Your job doesn’t have to be your identity. It can just be a place you go, that doesn’t define you or make you miserable. You deserve to be happy, Harriet.” He brushes a strand of hair away from the curve of my jaw. “Everything’s better when you’re happy.” “For.”

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69. “Every single person on the planet had to take turns hurting. Sometimes all you could do was hold on to each other tight until the dark spat you back out.”

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70. “For January, I don’t care how the story ends as long as I spend it with you.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “They met far away from here, but she was a little piece of home to him, so he swept her up and brought her back with him, because he wanted all the home he could have in one place.”

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

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75. “You won’t lose me,” he says, voice dimmed by the rain. “As long as you want me. I’m here.”

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76. “Here’s the thing about writing Happily Ever Afters: it helps if you believe in them.”

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77. “You’re a part of me. You’re so deep in my heart that I couldn’t get you out if I tried, and I don’t want to. I know how lucky I am to have you. To have people who love me enough to hold on even when I’m scared to let them close.”

— Emily Henry

78. “Laugh like brewing coffee.”

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79. “I sometimes think I wouldn’t feel so lost if she didn’t try so hard to make me feel okay about looking for myself.”

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80. “Just because not everyone gets you doesn’t mean you’re wrong. You’re someone people can count on. Really count on. And that doesn’t make you cold or boring.”

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81. “When you’ve been lost as I have,” he once said, “you get good at finding your way home.”

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82. “There’s nothing scarier than hearing someone you love cry, except imagining a world where that sound stops. Suddenly I can’t breathe. Can’t be here. There’s nothing scarier than loving someone.”

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83. “You gotta enjoy the moment sugarcube. You’ll miss your whole life looking forward and backward if you’re not careful.”

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84. “I don’t love Beau yet, I don’t think. But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other’s.”

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85. “We both know that pain comes for us all. It’s almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?”

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86. “It’s true that nothing has the potential to hurt so much as loving someone, but nothing heals like it either.”

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87. “There are always at least two versions of everything, June. I’ve forgotten my own because I love your daddy’s so much.”

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88. “The way to make the best decisions is to listen to all the stories and to know them by heart and to feel them in your bones.”

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89. “It’s hard to feel like you belong when you don’t know who you are.”

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90. “The most important friendships in my life all came down to a decision made by strangers, chance.”

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91. “Recognizing someone as a part of you before they’ve even become that person in your life, and knowing, without a doubt, that neither of you will ever be who are you in this exact moment ever again and believing, against all odds, you will continue to belong to one another despite that.”

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92. “It will – hopefully – be a place you can imagine existing, characters you believe could be real. And if we’re lucky, maybe it will help someone. To feel known and understood, like their story matters.”

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93. “Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.”

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94. “Shoot,” Hannah says, as if she weren’t just begging the universe for this exact scenario to unfold. “He’s actually coming over here! What do we do?”

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95. “It hurts to want it all, so many things that can’t coexist within the same life.”

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96. “Judging a story by the ending alone, or life by its death alone, is as pointless as judging a long hike through the mountains by the fact that when you get back to where you parked your car, there’s a pit toilet full of you know what and beer cans.”

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97. “Personal style is my mom, after some red wine, walking like she intends to restore order and beauty to the world with her posture alone.”

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98. “She would fold herself around him to protect him. She would drink out all the darkness from him and pour out all her light on him. She would rebuild the whole world for him.”

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99. “It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.”

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100. “Mom would hate it if she knew I told Coco this stuff. She’d hate it, and she wouldn’t even admit that to me, because she’d be too worried about making me uncomfortable or ashamed. She’s like a silverware divider with a conscience, trying to keep us all separate and safe without making the forks feel bad about not being spoons or the spoons feel worried that the forks shouldn’t be so poky.”

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