Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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. “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

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

— Emily Henry

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Emily Henry

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Emily Henry

166. “Suddenly we’re not kids anymore, and it feels like it happened overnight, so fast I didn’t have time to notice, to let go of everything that used to matter so much, to see that the old wounds that once felt like gut-level lacerations have faded to small white scars, mixed in among the stretch marks and sunspots and little divots where time has grazed against my body.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

168. “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

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

— Emily Henry

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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.”

— Emily Henry

173. “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

174. “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

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

— Emily Henry

176. “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

177. “I love you”, I tell him. “In every universe.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

179. “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

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

— Emily Henry

181. “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

182. “Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”

— Emily Henry

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

187. “You do have me, Nora. I never stood a chance.”

— Emily Henry

188. “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

189. “There’s nothing so off-putting to some people as someone who seems not to care whether anyone else approves of them. maybe it’s resentment: I have bent for the greater good, to follow the rules, so why haven’t you? You should care.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

196. “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

197. “It’s that happy-sad feeling, that intense homesick ache. It makes me think of my semester abroad. Not the old cobbled streets or tiny pubs overstuffed with drunk university students, but Sabrina and Cleo FaceTiming me at midnight to sing me “Happy Birthday.” The feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

199. “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

200. “It’s a strange reversal, seeing the things my baby sister has mastered that I never got around to. It makes me proud, but also sort of sad. Maybe this is how parents feel when their kids grow up, like some piece of them has become fundamentally unknowable.”

— Emily Henry