Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Emily Henry

252. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

254. “I love you, he tells me in a dozen different ways, and I say it back every time.”

— Emily Henry

255. “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.”

— Emily Henry

256. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

260. “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.”

— Emily Henry

261. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

264. “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

265. “Be my shark, Stephens.”

— Emily Henry

266. “Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time. All you can do is point yourself in a direction and hope the wind will let you get there. Another maritime metaphor. I am truly a local’s worst nightmare. But the point stands: change happens.”

— Emily Henry

267. “Hate, I found out on the ride home, was a less embarrassing way to say fear.”

— Emily Henry

268. “Well, for what it’s worth, before tonight, I assumed you went into a broom closet and entered power saving mode whenever you weren’t at work, so I guess we’re both surprised.”

— Emily Henry

269. “God, I miss weed. The maternity books never prepare you for how badly you’re going to miss weed.” “Sounds like there’s a hole in the market,” I say. “I’ll keep an eye out.” “The Pothead’s Guide to Pregnancy,” Libby says. “Marijuana Mommy,” I reply. “And its companion, Doobie Daddies.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

271. “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

272. “Somehow, it never occurred to me that this was an option: that two people, in the same hug, could both be allowed to fall apart. That maybe it’s neither of our jobs to keep a steel spine.”

— Emily Henry

273. “You asked me who I was, and – it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”

— Emily Henry

274. “I have an intense nighttime skin care routine. I don’t like to miss it, and it doesn’t all fit in a handbag.” 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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275. “The ship of her disappointment in me set sail a long time ago. I’d have to do something WAY sluttier to let her down now. When she finds your stash of Bigfoot erotica under your race car bed, maybe the ship will circle back.”

— Emily Henry

276. “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

277. “I rarely said his name, though. It felt too much like an incantation. As if it would light me up from the inside, and he’d see how much I wanted him, how all day long my mind caught on him like a scar in a record. How, without even trying, I knew exactly where he was at all times, could likely cover my eyes, get spun around, and still point to him on the first try.”

— Emily Henry

278. “You should know you’re safe with me. You shouldn’t spend every moment second-guessing how I feel when I’ve spent eight years telling you outright.”

— Emily Henry

279. “I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye.”

— Emily Henry

280. “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.”

— Emily Henry

281. “Mom’s first diagnosis taught me that love was an escape rope. But it was her second diagnosis that taught me love could be a life vest when you were drowning.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

284. “I burst into laughter against my will, and he’s so visibly pleased it gives me a full-body twinge of pride. He wants to make me laugh.”

— Emily Henry

285. “We really are two opposing magnets, incapable of being in the same room without drawing together. I want to scrape my fingers through his hair and kiss him until he forgets where we are, and everything and everyone that ever made him feel like he was a disappointment.”

— Emily Henry

286. “Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”

— Emily Henry

287. “You’re sick and twisted, January Andrews,” Gus said. “That’s what I love about you.” My stomach dipped and rose higher than it had started out. “Oh, that’s what it is.” “Well,” he said. “One thing. It seemed too crass to invite you to my aunts’ house and then bring up your ass.”

— Emily Henry

288. “I’ve always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that’s it. There’s something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel like I’m okay.”

— Emily Henry

289. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

292. “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.”

— Emily Henry

293. “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.”

— Emily Henry

294. “I can’t explain it. Do you feel it? Now that you’re old enough to read this, and to know who you are, do you have a word for the thing that evades me? The thing that makes you different from anything else?”

— Emily Henry

295. “The way your writing always makes the world seem brighter, and the people in it a little braver.”

— Emily Henry

296. “Charlie kisses like no one I’ve ever been with. Like someone who takes the time to figure out how things work.”

— Emily Henry

297. “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.”

— Emily Henry

298. “Angry that these characters had deserved better than they’d gotten and somehow comforted by their experience. Yes, I thought. That is how life feels too often. Like you’re doing everything you can to survive only to be sabotaged by something beyond your control, maybe even some darker part of yourself.”

— Emily Henry

299. “I feel insufficient as an adult. I look around at the office and see everyone typing, taking calls, making bookings, editing documents, and I know they’re all dealing with at least as much as I am, which only makes me feel worse about how hard everything feels to me.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry