Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Here’s the thing about writing Happily Ever Afters: it helps if you believe in them.”

— Emily Henry

52. “Laugh like brewing coffee.”

— Emily Henry

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Emily Henry

56. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

58. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

66. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

68. “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?”

— Emily Henry

69. “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

70. “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

71. “And because she jumped, our world began.”

— Emily Henry

72. “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.”

— Emily Henry

73. “I wonder what that must feel like, to know that for sure. This is home.”

— Emily Henry

74. “There’s nothing scarier than loving someone.”

— Emily Henry

75. “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.”

— Emily Henry

76. “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.”

— Emily Henry

77. “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.”

— Emily Henry

78. “No story is truer than any other story that has the truth in its heart.”

— Emily Henry

79. “And when you see those good things – and I promise you, there are so many good things – they’re going to be so much brighter for you than they are for other people, just like the abyss always seems deeper and bigger when you stare at it. If you stick it out, it’s all going to feel worth it in the end. Every moment you live, every darkness you face, they’ll all feel worth it when you’re staring light in the face.”

— Emily Henry

80. “I think once you’ve felt grief, it’s hard not to catch someone else’s.”

— Emily Henry

81. “Life felt like a blender that wanted to eat me.”

— Emily Henry

82. “Nothing sounds better tonight than living my small life well.”

— Emily Henry

83. “How many billions of things had to happen just right to give me this ordinary life.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

85. “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.”

— Emily Henry

86. “I think right then he could’ve told me he was the one who spread out the stars and I would have been neither surprised nor any more impressed than I already was.”

— Emily Henry

87. “Evil’s something you can decide to do every day, and it gets easier every time. But the more good you bring into the world, maybe the more the rest of the world would look like this. Like paradise.”

— Emily Henry

88. “There is always more to see and feel.”

— Emily Henry

89. “No matter how hard it feels, you don’t need to be afraid to move on. There’s always more to see and feel.”

— Emily Henry

90. “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. Things that got lost and had to be replaced on a regular basis.”

— Emily Henry

91. “God is a thing I think I see glimmers all over: an enormous and vague warmth I sometimes catch pulsing around me, giving me shivers and making tears prick my eyes; a mysterious and limitless Thing threaded through all the world and refusing to be reduced to a name or a set of rules and instead winding itself through millions of stories, true and made up, connecting all breathing things.”

— Emily Henry

92. “What is love,” she says, “other than putting someone else before you?”

— Emily Henry

93. “You don’t have to be afraid to walk away because... there’s no expiration date on soul-love.”

— Emily Henry

94. “Being with him feels like a better version of being alone.”

— Emily Henry

95. “So tell me, okay? Tell me what you need, and tell me every single time you need it, and I’ll be there.”

— Emily Henry

96. “His mouth slides down my neck, the side of his face settling over my heartbeat. “I hear you,” he whispers, kissing my collarbone. “I can hear all of you, rushing around in there. A million Jacks and Juniors and Junes, a city of them.”

— Emily Henry

97. “Grandmother taugh me that eventually – whether with a thousand tiny fissures or one swift split – love will break your heart. My heart is breaking.”

— Emily Henry

98. “God is a thing I know when I see, and I see It all over, in Megan, in the night sky and the morning sun, and especially in Grandmother.”

— Emily Henry

99. “You’re born. You sing. You die.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry