Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

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

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204. “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.”

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205. “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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206. “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.”

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

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209. “I am sure it is something really groundbreaking and important, Totally new and fresh. Like a story about a disillusioned white guy, wandering the world, misunderstood and coldly horny.”

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210. “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.”

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211. “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.”

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

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “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.”

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216. “She smiles, like when she looks back at it, all she sees is the happiness of that day she spent there with her parents, rather than the pain of what came after. Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”

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217. “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.”

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

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219. “Her laugh,′ she said finally ‘She snorted when she laughed.’ The corner of my mouth inched up but a new heaviness settled across my chest. ‘I love when people do that,’ I admitted. ‘My best friend does it. I always feel like she’s drowning in life. In a good way. Like it’s rushing up her nose, you know?”

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220. “This place looks like a Cracker Barrel had a baby with a honky-tonk, and now that baby is a teenager who doesn’t shower enough and chews on his sweatshirt sleeves.”

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221. “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.”

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “If my professionalism is a gel manicure, then Charlie Lastra is apparently the industrial-grade acetone capable of burning right through it.”

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225. “Charlie threads his fingers through mine and lifts the back of my hand to his lips. “For what it’s worth,” he says, “I doubt I will ever like anyone else in the world as much as I like you.”

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226. “People always talk about compartmentalization like it’s a bad thing, but I love the way that, when I work, everything else seems to get folded away neatly into drawers, the books I’m working on swelling to the forefront, immersing me every bit as wholly as reading my favorite chapter books did when I was a kid. Like there’s nothing to worry over, plan, mourn, or figure out.”

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227. “Everything about my best friend was misleading to the men of Chicago. She was eccentric and loud, prone to heavy drinking and all-night partying, comfortable with casual hookups, always the funniest and most shocking person in any room, and she posted mostly nude selfies with increasing regularity. She was enigmatic, the closest to the stereotypical male fantasy I’d ever seen outside of a movie, but deep down she was, completely, a romantic.”

— Emily Henry

228. “I’m not being self-deprecating,” I say. “Once men get to know me, they’re sometimes interested, but I’m not the one their eyes go to first. I’ve made peace with it.” His gaze slides down me and back up. “So you’re saying you’re slow-release hot.” I nod. “That’s right. I’m slow-release hot.”

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229. “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.”

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230. “Even if Jason Stanley and every other bully from my past were here, mocking me through a megaphone, I don’t think I’d stop dancing clumsily with Alex in the street.”

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231. “This, I think, is what it is to dream, and I finally understand why Mom could never give it up, why my authors can’t give it up, and I’m happy for them, because this wanting, it feels good, like a bruise you need to press on, a reminder that there are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them.”

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232. “I read once that not everyone thinks in words. I was shocked, imagining these other people who don’t use language to make sense of everyone and everything, who don’t automatically organize the world into chapters, pages, sentences.”

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233. “If we drank green smoothies like we drink alcohol, we would live forever.”

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234. “I realized that there were too many books in this world and not enough time.”

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235. “People doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Only getting what they wanted if it would ultimately destroy them.”

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236. “I hate exercise; I love the feeling of having exercised.”

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

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238. “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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239. “What I didn’t know to expect is that today, I would feel like I’d been born too. You have made a new person: January’s father. And I know this is who I will be for the rest of my life.”

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

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

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242. “She said I have no life.” “Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”

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

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245. “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.”

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246. “You don’t know the difference between pity and sympathy,′ I said. ‘I’m not pitying you. It makes me sad to think of you being treated like that. It makes me ad to think you didn’t have the things all kids deserve. And yeah, it makes me mad and sad that a lot of people go through the things that you went through, but it’s even more upsetting because it’s you. And I know you and I like you and I want you to have a good life. That’s not pity. That’s caring about someone.”

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247. “Do you send all your enemies Bigfoot erotica, or just the special ones?”

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248. “This is what I want for the rest of my life. To see new places. To meet new people. To try new things. I don’t feel lost or out of place here.”

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249. “As different as I’d thought we were, it felt a little bit like Gus and I were two aliens who’d stumbled into each other on Earth only to discover we shared a native language.”

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250. “I’m happy, so happy to be a tiny fleck of a thing alongside you. We may just be moments, June, but to love a handful of people very well, that’s a good life. I was just a blip, a spark, the blink of God’s eyes. Because of you, it was more than enough. It was everything.”

— Emily Henry