Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “There’s little to feel when you love. There’s nothing to fear when you are loved.”

— Emily Henry

102. “Sometimes a change of scenery is all that’s needed to get a little perspective.”

— Emily Henry

103. “I want my life to be like-like making pottery. I want to enjoy it while it’s happening, not just for where it might get me eventually.”

— Emily Henry

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Emily Henry

107. “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

108. “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

109. “I was a wound, half-healed-over and scraped raw again. “Everybody Hurts” was running through my mind. I could see the consolation of it, the idea that your pain wasn’t unique. Something about that made it seem both bigger and smaller. Smaller because all the world was aching. Bigger because I could finally admit that every other feeling I’d been focusing on had been a distraction from the deepest hurt. My father was gone. And I would always miss him.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Emily Henry

116. “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

117. “You know that feeling, when you’re watching someone sleep and you feel overwhelmed with joy that they exist?”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

120. “And then one day, our parents look at us and notice we’re whole people. We’re not a part of them anymore, even if they’re a part of us. And for the ones who never really wanted to be parents anyway, that’s probably a relief.”

— Emily Henry

121. “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

122. “I love him so much. I love him more than I did yesterday, and I already know tomorrow I’ll love him even more, because every piece of him he gives me is another to fall in love with.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

124. “I have no idea how to help you with all of this. 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

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

— Emily Henry

126. “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

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

— Emily Henry

128. “Living, being responsible for myself, seems like an insurmountable challenge lately.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

130. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

133. “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

134. “And then I met you, and I didn’t feel so lost or aimless. Because even if there was nothing else for me, it felt like loving you was what I was made for. And it didn’t matter what anyone thought of me. It didn’t matter if I didn’t have any other big plans for myself, as long as I got to love you.”

— Emily Henry

135. “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.”

— Emily Henry

136. “You can’t outrun yourself. Not your history, not your fears, not the parts of yourself you’re worried are wrong.”

— Emily Henry

137. “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

138. “I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I’m feeling, I want you next to me. You’re home to me, Alex. And I think I’m that for you too.”

— Emily Henry

139. “I see the January Andrews circus book I bought my first weekend here, the one Sally told me Charlie had edited, and prop my card against the bookshelf to scribble a few lines.”

— Emily Henry

140. “But the truth is, if I could take it all back, I would. I’d do anything to go back to that happy place, outside of time, where nothing from real life can touch us.”

— Emily Henry

141. “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

142. “For me, traveling is about wandering, meeting people you don’t expect, doing things you’ve never done.”

— Emily Henry

143. “People were complicated. They weren’t math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck. The world was complicated too, not a beautifully hazy French film, but a disastrous, horrible mess, speckled with brilliance and love and meaning.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

145. “Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day?”

— Emily Henry

146. “I go on loving him.”

— Emily Henry

147. “He laughs against my cheek. I wish I could swallow the sound, that it would put down roots in my stomach and grow through me like a seed.”

— Emily Henry

148. “The world is going to keep right on being beautiful and terrible all at once.”

— Emily Henry

149. “This from a man who listed himself as six feet and an inch but can’t be taller than five nine unless he’s wearing stilts under this table.”

— Emily Henry

150. “My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”

— Emily Henry