Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Emily Henry

104. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

110. “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

111. “Meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favorite sweatshirt worn to perfection. Time doesn’t move the same way when we’re there. Things change, but we stretch, and grow and make room for one another. Our love is a placewe can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it always was.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Emily Henry

116. “Just one more thing,” he said soberly. “What?” “Promise not to fall in love with me.”

— Emily Henry

117. “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

118. “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

119. “For a moment we’re both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.”

— Emily Henry

120. “All I really want is to build a house with a nice, big porch that gets used every day.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

122. “You’re born. You sing. You die.”

— Emily Henry

123. “The place I go when I feel trapped inside myself. When I’m terrified that all my happiest moments belong to the past. Wen my body is humming with too much of something, or aching from too little, and life stretches out ahead of me like a threat.”

— Emily Henry

124. “My parents aren’t people of words, but they sacrificed so much. That’s love, and I hate that I want more from them. That I can’t just feel grateful for all they’ve given me, because at all times I’m aware of what it cost them.”

— Emily Henry

125. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “When I was your age, I knew nothing. Nothing about myself, nothing about the universe or about heartbreak. I remember being terrified to grow up, afraid of losing my friends, sure I’d lose my mind. Life felt like a blender that wanted to eat me.”

— Emily Henry

136. “And I don’t know exactly what makes it love, but when I saw you in the House of Mirrors, it was like I already knew exactly who you were. And I should’ve been wrong-that would’ve made more sense-but I wasn’t, and I love you. I’ll always love you. And someday maybe we’ll have a bad breakup or grow apart and -curse or not-all the stars will burn out and the planet will have another ice age, but I’ll go on loving you because I see you, June O’Donnell, and I can’t unsee you.”

— Emily Henry

137. “A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.” “In fact,” I say, “it’s discouraged.”

— Emily Henry

138. “Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”

— Emily Henry

139. “As usual, the blank document was staring accusingly at me, refusing to fill itself with words or characters, no matter how long I stare back.”

— Emily Henry

140. “Let me prove I can love you forever.”

— Emily Henry

141. “He’s become my best friend the way the others did. Bit by bit, sand passing through an hour glass so slowly, it’s impossible to pin down the moment it happens. When suddenly, more of my heart belongs to him than doesn’t, and I know I’ll never get a single grain back.”

— Emily Henry

142. “Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”

— Emily Henry

143. “The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”

— Emily Henry

144. “There’s little to feel when you love. There’s nothing to fear when you are loved.”

— Emily Henry

145. “That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.”

— Emily Henry

146. “And that’s when I’m lost, and in my place, the world gets born.”

— Emily Henry

147. “He’s a golden boy. I’m a girl whose life has been drawn in shades of gray.”

— Emily Henry

148. “God,′ he said, voice deep, raspy. I fought a smile. ‘Are you praying to me, Gus?”

— Emily Henry

149. “If you want the good, you can’t give up.”

— Emily Henry

150. “There are certain people you can just be silent with – like Dad, and Megan – and it’s every bit as good as a long heart-to-heart.”

— Emily Henry