Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “You gotta enjoy the moment sugarcube. You’ll miss your whole life looking forward and backward if you’re not careful.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

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

— Emily Henry

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Emily Henry

110. “Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”

— Emily Henry

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Emily Henry

115. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

118. “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

119. “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.”

— Emily Henry

120. “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

121. “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

122. “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

123. “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

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

— Emily Henry

125. “There isn’t for women either. There’s just tall women,” he says, “and the men too insecure to date them.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

129. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

132. “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

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

— Emily Henry

134. “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

135. “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

136. “I don’t think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

141. “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

142. “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

143. “And I’m probably going to have to stop a lot and set you down, and you’re not allowed to call me Seabiscuit, or scream Faster! Faster! in my ear.”

— Emily Henry

144. “So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

146. “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

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

— Emily Henry

148. “Love means constantly saying you’re sorry, and then doing better.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

150. “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