Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “It doesn’t matter how busy life’s been, how long the live of us have gone without seeing one another: 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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

159. “I’ll take care of you, okay? I’ll take care of you how you’ve always, always taken care of me, Nora.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

162. “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

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

— Emily Henry

164. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

166. “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

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

— Emily Henry

168. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

170. “I still feel sick and worried and angry, but at moments, I’m also happy.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Emily Henry

175. “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.”

— Emily Henry

176. “I’m crying because I’m relieved. Because I will never again feel as alone as I did during those long nights as a kid. As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.”

— Emily Henry

177. “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.”

— Emily Henry

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Emily Henry

181. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

183. “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

184. “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.”

— Emily Henry

185. “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

186. “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.”

— Emily Henry

187. “It always surprised me, how quickly the ratio of his face could change. In a second, he can go from that broody, tender look to almost boyish delight. Every time his expression changed, I used to think the new one was my favorite. Until it changed again and I had to accept that whichever Wyn was directly in front of me, that was the one I loved most.”

— Emily Henry

188. “When I was a kid, I used to have these panic attacks thinking about how I could never be anyone else. I couldn’t be my mom or my dad, and for my whole life, I’d have to walk around inside a body that kept me from ever truly knowing anyone else.”

— Emily Henry

189. “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.”

— Emily Henry

190. “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.”

— Emily Henry

191. “Because there’s nowhere I wouldn’t go for you. And if you get out to Montana and realize there’s somewhere else you need to be, there’s nothing I’m not willing to do to make it work. I’d rather have you five days a year than anyone else all the time.”

— Emily Henry

192. “I almost love him. I’m starting to love him. I love him.”

— Emily Henry

193. “Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.”

— Emily Henry

194. “My mom used to say, You can’t control the passage of time, but you can soften its blow to your face.”

— Emily Henry

195. “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

196. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

199. “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?”

— Emily Henry

200. “Even if there aren’t any snowflakes, we’ll have January all year long.”

— Emily Henry