Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “I love you, he tells me in a dozen different ways, and I say it back every time.”

— Emily Henry

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

257. “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

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

— Emily Henry

259. “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

260. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

263. “Bea giggles. It is, very likely, the sound that the earth made the first time it saw the sun come up.”

— Emily Henry

264. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

266. “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

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

— Emily Henry

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

271. “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

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

— Emily Henry

273. “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

274. “I’m a complete person, and not just someone else’s mistake.”

— Emily Henry

275. “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

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

— Emily Henry

277. “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

278. “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

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

— Emily Henry

280. “For a decade, I’ve known I will never again have everything, and so all I’ve wanted is to believe that, someday, again, I’ll have enough.”

— Emily Henry

281. “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

282. “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

283. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

286. “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

287. “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

288. “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

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

— Emily Henry

290. “How is it possible for two people who belong together to belong in two different places?”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

292. “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.”

— Emily Henry

293. “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

294. “And I knew how to read it because it was a smile I’d been practicing for a year: Can you believe I was so stupid? Don’t worry. I know better now.”

— Emily Henry

295. “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

296. “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

297. “Who else do you think about being?” my dad said with his particular blunt fascination. The fear lessened, but the feeling never went away. Every once in a while, I’d roll it back out, poke at it. Wonder how I could ever stop feeling lonely when no one could ever know me all the way. When I could never peer into someone else’s brain and see it all.”

— Emily Henry

298. “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

299. “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

300. “Be my shark, Stephens.”

— Emily Henry