Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Everything is because of you.”

— Emily Henry

53. “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

54. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

57. “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.”

— Emily Henry

58. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

61. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

63. “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?”

— Emily Henry

64. “Some things never change, and the best thing is to stop hoping they will.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

66. “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.”

— Emily Henry

67. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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.”

— Emily Henry

70. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

73. “I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.”

— Emily Henry

74. “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.”

— Emily Henry

75. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

77. “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...”

— Emily Henry

78. “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.”

— Emily Henry

79. “I know,” he says. “I can read you like a book.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

82. “I still feel sick and worried and angry, but at moments, I’m also happy.”

— Emily Henry

83. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

86. “No one else’s happiness is yours to grant, Mom, I tell her. You need to find yours.”

— Emily Henry

87. “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.”

— Emily Henry

88. “Good morning, beautiful smile. Hello, strong arms and legs. Have a great day, lovely belly that feeds me.” – Poppy.”

— Emily Henry

89. “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

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

— Emily Henry

91. “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.”

— Emily Henry

92. “Laugh like brewing coffee.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

94. “I’ll take care of you, okay? I’ll take care of you how you’ve always, always taken care of me, Nora.”

— Emily Henry

95. “So much of life is waiting for more of him, and even that torture is bliss.”

— Emily Henry

96. “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?”

— Emily Henry

97. “But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can’t have it.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

99. “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.”

— Emily Henry

100. “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.”

— Emily Henry