Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “My mom used to say, You can’t control the passage of time, but you can soften its blow to your face.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Emily Henry

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

211. “How are you more successful at dating than me,” he says, awed by the mystery of it all. “Easy,” I say. “I have lower standards. And no Flannery O’Connor to get in the way. And when I go out to bars, I don’t spend the whole time scowling at Yelp reviews and forcefully projecting DON’T TALK TO ME. Also, I am, arguably, gorgeous from certain angles.”

— Emily Henry

212. “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

213. “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.”

— Emily Henry

214. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

216. “Ninety-five percent of the time, I see Alex Nilsen in a purely platonic way, and I’d guess his number hovers a bit higher. But for that other five percent of the time, there’s this what-if.”

— Emily Henry

217. “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

218. “I thought being family just meant you have limitless time to hold grudges.”

— Emily Henry

219. “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.”

— Emily Henry

220. “I go on loving him.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

222. “Speaking of fire, sometimes his eyes seemed to be reflecting it, even though there wasn’t any. The car was nearly pitch-black for God’s sake. His eyes should be allowed, physically or morally, to glint like that. His pupils were disrespectful to the laws of nature.”

— Emily Henry

223. “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

224. “For a decade, I’ve known I will never have everything and so all I’ve wanted is to believe that, someday, again, I’ll have enough. The ache won’t always be so bad. No ice ever freezes too thick to thaw and no thorns ever grow too dense to be cut away.”

— Emily Henry

225. “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

226. “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

227. “That’s the thing about being an adult standing beside your childhood race car bed. 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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

229. “Before I even see him, my heart starts singing its favorite song. You, you, you.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

231. “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.”

— Emily Henry

232. “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.”

— Emily Henry

233. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

235. “Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another.”

— Emily Henry

236. “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.”

— Emily Henry

237. “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

238. “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

239. “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.”

— Emily Henry

240. “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

241. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

244. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

246. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

248. “Because nothing – not the beautiful and not the terrible – lasts.”

— Emily Henry

249. “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.”

— Emily Henry

250. “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.”

— Emily Henry