Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

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

— Emily Henry

304. “Gus still thought he was missing something, some special piece other people had, the thing that made people stay...”

— Emily Henry

305. “I’m tired of trying to be smart at the expense of my own happiness. I want this to be forever, and I don’t want to pretend that’s not what I want.”

— Emily Henry

306. “If I can’t love you at Times Square then I don’t deserve you at a used bookstore.”

— Emily Henry

307. “But it was all of Gus’s minor imperfections – his scars and ridges, crooked lines and sharp edges – and how they added up that had always made it hard for me to stop looking at him, and made me want to see more.”

— Emily Henry

308. “It sounds so pathetic. I’m twenty-six years old with a full-time job and health insurance, and an apartment and student loan bills, and I live alone in New York City, but there are just some things you don’t want to have to do on your own.”

— Emily Henry

309. “You never get the paper umbrellas you were promised in this world.”

— Emily Henry

310. “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

311. “I’d do anything for you, but – please don’t ask me to if you’re not sure.”

— Emily Henry

312. “If I were hit by a meteor while in the car with you, yes, I would still think I went out on a high note.”

— Emily Henry

313. “You can take my life,” I yelped, dodging his hands, “you can take my freedom, but you’ll never take this goddamn yearbook from me, Gus.”

— Emily Henry

314. “Maybe he thought someone had to bear witness to the dark, or maybe he hoped that if he stared into the pitch-black long enough, his eyes would adjust and he’d see answers hiding in it.”

— Emily Henry

315. “Stephens, if you’re the villain in someone else’s love story, then I’m the devil.”

— Emily Henry

316. “I spent all last summer thinking I’d never be happy again, and now, a year later, I still feel sick and worried and angry, but at moments, I’m also happy.”

— Emily Henry

317. “Like he can’t fathom that all my love for him didn’t just vanish, the way his did for me. That it had to go somewhere, and funneling it into anger is how I’ve managed to make it through these last two days.”

— Emily Henry

318. “I read once that sunflowers always orient themselves to face the sun. That’s what being near Charlie Lastra is like for me. There could be a raging wildfire racing toward me from the west and I’d still be straining eastward toward his warmth.”

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319. “I feel like I’m sugar under a blowtorch, like he’s caramelizing my blood.”

— Emily Henry

320. “Another “universal truth” Austen could’ve started Pride and Prejudice with: When you tell yourself not to think about something, it will be all that you can think about.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

323. “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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324. “You have a face for movies, not photographs,” I say. “Meaning?” “Meaning you’re extremely handsome in real life, when your face is moving how it does, but when one millisecond is captured, yes, sometimes you’re making a weird face.”

— Emily Henry

325. “And other times, we’d sit in silence, not quite together but definitely not alone.”

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326. “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

327. “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.”

— Emily Henry

328. “I hadn’t felt like this in years – that almost painful weight of wanting, that paralyzing fear that any wrong move would ruin everything.”

— Emily Henry

329. “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.”

— Emily Henry

330. “Alex sets his book down. “I tell you what. You can have my summer breaks. I’ll keep those wide open for you, and we’ll go anywhere you want, that we can afford.” “Really?” I say, dubious. “Promise.” He holds out his hand, and we shake on it, then sit there grinning for a few seconds feeling like we’ve signed some life-alteringly significant contract.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

332. “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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333. “Libby!” I shriek, realization dawning. “Why the hell are you on a dating app?” “I’m not,” she says. “You are.” “I am definitely not,” I say. “I made an account for you,” she says. “It’s a new app. Very marriage minded. I mean, it’s called Marriage of Minds.” “MOM?” I say. “The acronym for the app is MOM? Sometimes I worry about the severe lack of warning bells in your brain, Libby.”

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334. “We went two years without talking, and I thought about you every day and I gave you the space I thought you wanted, and that whole time I asked myself what I’d be willing to do, to give up, if you decided you wanted to be with me too.”

— Emily Henry

335. “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.”

— Emily Henry

336. “He was a realist who was a little too afraid of hope to see things clearly when it came to his own life.”

— Emily Henry

337. “Maybe I wanted someone to understand I’m a complete person, and not just someone else’s mistake.”

— Emily Henry

338. “If I went to a shelter to pick up a foster dog, there’s no guarantee I woudn’t come home having adopted six of them and a wild coyote.”

— Emily Henry

339. “Thank you, I mouth. His chin dips as he smiles. Anything for you, he mouths. In my chest, something heavy turns over.”

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340. “I knew the only thing more painful than being without him would be being together knowing I no longer truly had him.”

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341. “A cottage on the rocky shoreline, with knotty pine floorboards and windows that are nearly always open. The smell of evergreens and brine wafting in on the breeze, and white linen drapes lifting in a lazy dance. The burble of a coffee maker, and that first deep pull of cold ocean air as we step out onto the flagstone patio, steaming mugs in hand.”

— Emily Henry

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

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344. “Yes, New York is exhausting. Yes, there are millions of people all swimming upstream, but you’re also in it together.”

— Emily Henry

345. “I wanted to scream but all I could do was cry. I’d burned through all my anger, and fear was all that was left. Maybe that was what had been there all along, masked in thornier emotions.”

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346. “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

347. “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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348. “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.”

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349. “Gus’s eyes dipped to my mouth, then rose to my eyes. “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.”

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

— Emily Henry