Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

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203. “I wonder if I’ve been living at half volume too. With agenting. With dating. Tamping myself into a shape that felt sturdy and safe instead of right.”

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204. “Feeling that hole in your heart is better than feeling nothing at all.”

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205. “Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other.”

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206. “Once, in a bad season of tension headaches, my doctor had told me that pain was our body demanding to be heard. “Sometimes it’s a warning,” she said. “Sometimes it’s a billboard.”

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207. “No one had chosen Gus. From the time he was a kid, no one had chosen him, and he was embarrassed by that, like it meant something about him. I wanted to tell him it didn’t. That it wasn’t because he was broken, but because everyone else was.”

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208. “You’re a part of me. You’re so deep in my heart that I couldn’t get you out if I tried, and I don’t want to. I know how lucky I am to have you. To have people who love me enough to hold on even when I’m scared to let them close.”

— Emily Henry

209. “It’s incredibly annoying, but the second I’m comfortable again, I find myself smiling in the dark, feeling so unbelievably lucky to sleep every night beside my favorite person in the world. Even being uncomfortably warm is better with him.”

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210. “The nerd gets a makeover, and without her glasses, she’s smoking hot.”

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211. “The first time Sal and I visited him in New York, it all made perfect sense. It was like he’d been living half volume until that moment. That’s not what a parent wants for their kid.”

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212. “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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213. “He wasn’t afraid for things to get ugly, to see someone at their weakest, and he didn’t fall over himself trying to talk me out of my own feelings. He just witnessed them, and somehow, that let them finally get out of my body after years of imprisonment.”

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

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216. “Her fatigue has made her look insubstantial, faded, like if I tried to brush her hair away from her brow, my fingers might pass through her. I didn’t know it was possible to miss a person this much while she was sitting right next to you, so badly everything in you aches.”

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217. “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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218. “Look! I’m fine! Look! I have every beautiful thing you wanted for me! Look! It hasn’t affected me at all!”

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219. “Naomi was beautiful. I should’ve known she would be. I probably had. But I hadn’t expected to see her. Especially not alone, here, looking at Gus like that.”

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220. “If anyone can negotiate a happy ending, it’s Nora Stephens.”

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221. “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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222. “So yes, sometimes making art is a horror story. But other times, you fall head over heels in love. Either way, you’ll probably laugh.”

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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226. “There isn’t for women either. There’s just tall women,” he says, “and the men too insecure to date them.”

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227. “Time collapses, and instead of the version of you you’ve built from scratch, you’re all the hackneyed drafts that came before, all at once.”

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228. “I tried to imagine cabin fever. I tried to imagine this getting old: that smile, those rumpled clothes, the language only Gus and I spoke, the joking and crying and touching and not touching.”

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229. “I would rather have one tiny sliver of him forever than have all of him for just a moment and know I’d have to relinquish all of it when we were through.”

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230. “Charlie looks away first. He rubs the side of his jaw. “You’re right. I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to accept this can’t be anything.”

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231. “Your favorite book right now is The Giving Tree, but God, January, that book breaks my heart. Your mother is a bit like that tree and I worry you will be too. Don’t get me wrong. That’s a good way to be. But still. I wish you could be a bit stonier, like your old pop. Only for your own good.”

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232. “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.”

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233. “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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234. “The sky had darkened to a brutal blue. Seeing that color on someone’s skin would make your stomach turn. It was gorgeous in this context. Strange how things could be repellent in some situations and incredible in others.”

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

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236. “I’m sleeping in a race car bed, Nora. Are you happy?”

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237. “It was so late it was almost morning, those slippery hours when it feels safest to let your secrets out.”

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238. “But carving turns you into a knife. Cold, hard, sharp, at least on the outside.”

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239. “There aren’t words vast or specific enough to capture the ecstasy and the ache and love and fear I feel just looking at him now.”

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240. “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.”

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241. “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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242. “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.”

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243. “Sometimes we lose the ability to create simply because we’re tired. We need to rest and recover. But other times, we can’t move forward because there are hard questions we have to ask first. Hurdles in our path we first have to jump or walls that need breaking down – interrogations demanding to be made.”

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244. “He was my first date, my first kiss, my first boyfriend. The first man – or boy – I said ‘I love you’ to.”

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245. “And not the universal kind of handsome that almost dulls itself with objectivity.”

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246. “Some things never change, and the best thing is to stop hoping they will.”

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

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248. “Because I know you, he says tenderly, “and I remember what you sound like when you like something.”

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249. “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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250. “That cheese board has basically formed a cork in my butthole and everything’s just piling up behind it.”

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