Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “When we were together, though, the game didn’t even exist. The rest of the world dissolved until I believed this was how things truly were. Like I’d never been that girl who’d felt entirely alone, misunderstood, and I’d always been this one: known, loved, wholly accepted by Alex Nilsen.”

— Emily Henry

152. “But so far, this was the third-worst day of my life, and that January was probably buried wherever they put the old Taylor Swift, so what I actually said was “Could you turn off your sad-boy-angsting soundtrack?”

— Emily Henry

153. “The fire of a thousand suns rushed to my face, and probably my neck and chest and legs and every other exposed inch of my body.”

— Emily Henry

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

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155. “I thought the whole thing about millennials was that we don’t get what we want. The houses, the jobs, the financial freedom. We just go to school forever, then bartend ’til we die.”

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156. “Sometimes, January, being a parent feels like being a kid who someone has mistakenly handed another kid. ‘Good luck!’ this unwise stranger cries before turning his back on you forever.”

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157. “I’m a grown man, Nora. I can buy my own Bigfoot erotica, thank you very much.”

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158. “From watching Shadi’s love life, I knew how relationship-phobes like Gus Everett reacted when boundaries broke down, when things go from friendly to intimate, or from sexual to romantic. Guys like Gus were never the ones to pump the brakes when the emotional-entanglement train started moving, and they were always the ones to jump out and roll clear of the tracks once they realized they’d reached top speed.”

— Emily Henry

159. “Don’t encourage people to blame you for something beyond your control.”

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160. “Like a gut-punch of a sentence, like a line so sharp you have to set the book aside to catch your breath.”

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

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162. “For anyone who wants it all,” she begins, “may you find something that is more than enough.” She wonders whether what comes next could ever live up to the expectations. She doesn’t know. You never can. She turns the page anyway.”

— Emily Henry

163. “I had no idea it was possible,” he says, “for you to want me as much as I want you.”

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

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165. “Some books you don’t read so much as live, and finishing one of those always makes me think of ascending from a scuba dive.”

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166. “What if I promise to take you to a bookstore in every city?” I ask. “Then will you quit school and live in a van with me?”

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167. “What can you feel? Sunlight, everywhere. Not just on my bare shoulders or the crown of my head but inside me too, the irresistible warmth that comes only from being in the exact right place with the exact right people.”

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168. “Shadi was a terrible driver. She screamed whenever she turned left.”

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169. “Your mother has been a lot of people in the twenty years I’ve known her, and I’ve had a chance to fall in love with every single one of them, Janie. That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”

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170. “I sip my ice-cold drink and bask in the double-barreled serotonin coursing through me. 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.”

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171. “Everything is because of you.”

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172. “I thought – think it’s brave to believe in love. I mean, the lasting kind. To try for that, even knowing it can hurt you.”

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173. “For the first time in my life, the airport strikes me as the loneliest place in the world. All those people, parting ways, going off in their own directions, crossing paths with hundreds of people but never connecting.”

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174. “I didn’t know regular life could feel like this, like a vacation you don’t have to go home from.”

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175. “Happy endings don’t happen to everyone. There’s nothing you can do to make someone keep loving you.”

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176. “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

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

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178. “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.”

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179. “Anywhere we go, we won’t leave each other. We couldn’t even if we wanted to. And we don’t. We never will.”

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180. “I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume.”

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181. “You’re sick and twisted, January Andrews,” Gus said. “That’s what I love about you.” My stomach dipped and rose higher than it had started out. “Oh, that’s what it is.” “Well,” he said. “One thing. It seemed too crass to invite you to my aunts’ house and then bring up your ass.”

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182. “And what, just because I don’t want kids, I would supposedly punish a pregnant woman for making a different decision than me? My favorite person’s a pregnant woman! And I’m obsessed with my nieces. Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women’s lives.”

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183. “Tropes and cliches have to come from somewhere, right? Women like me clearly have always existed. So it’s either a very specific kind of self-sabotage or an ancient curse. Come to think of it, maybe it started with Lilith. Too weird to be a coincidence.”

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184. “You’re not a vacation, and you’re not the answer to my career crisis, but when I’m in a crisis or I’m sick or I’m sad, you’re the only thing I want. And when I’m happy, you make me so much happier. 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.”

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185. “Charlie kisses like no one I’ve ever been with. Like someone who takes the time to figure out how things work.”

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186. “And not knowing something doesn’t make a person stupid, Wyn.” “Oh,” he says, amused. “Then what does?” After a moment’s thought, I say, “An unwillingness to learn.”

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187. “Angry that these characters had deserved better than they’d gotten and somehow comforted by their experience. Yes, I thought. That is how life feels too often. Like you’re doing everything you can to survive only to be sabotaged by something beyond your control, maybe even some darker part of yourself.”

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188. “I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye. I’m afraid of you dying, and the world feeling useless. I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep getting out of bed if you’re gone, and if we had kids, they’d have these horrible lives where their amazing mom is gone, and their dad can’t even look at them.”

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

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190. “For anyone who wants it all,” she begins, “may you find something that is more than enough.”

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191. “I feel insufficient as an adult. I look around at the office and see everyone typing, taking calls, making bookings, editing documents, and I know they’re all dealing with at least as much as I am, which only makes me feel worse about how hard everything feels to me.”

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192. “I missed feeling that deep curiosity about people, that spark of excitement when you realized you had something in common or admiration when you uncovered a hidden talent or quality. Sometimes, I just missed liking people.”

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193. “My eyes flutter closed. When I open them, he’s gone. But I still feel him everywhere. I am Heathcliff.”

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194. “I was seeing through rose-colored glasses, assigning meaning where there was none.”

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195. “That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”

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196. “Be my shark, Stephens.”

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197. “Straight men love bangs,” I say. “They make women approachable.”

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198. “It’s possible that all those little moments that meant so much to me never meant quite the same thing to him. It’s possible that he didn’t reach out to me for two full years because, when we stopped speaking, he didn’t lose something precious the way that I did.”

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199. “To put it lightly, I don’t enjoy showering. Being clean, yes. The act of being in the shower, also yes. But everything about having to brush out my tangled hair beforehand, stepping out onto a ratty bath mat or tile floors, getting dry, combing my hair out again – I hate all of that, which means I’m a three-shower-a-week person to Alex’s one to two showers a day.”

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200. “Maybe, for example, you didn’t have much control over your life as a kid. So, to avoid disappointment, you learned never to ask yourself what you truly wanted. And it worked for a long time. Only now, upon realizing you didn’t get what you didn’t know you wanted, you’re barreling down the highway in a midlife-crisis-mobile with a suitcase full of cash and a man named Stan in your trunk.”

— Emily Henry