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

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

— Emily Henry

303. “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

304. “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

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

— Emily Henry

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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.”

— Emily Henry

310. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

312. “And to answer your question about the best-case scenario for a love story, yes. If I were hit by a meteor while in the car with you, I would still think I went out on a high note.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

314. “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

315. “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.”

— Emily Henry

316. “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

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

— Emily Henry

318. “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

319. “I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,” he says softly. “And it feels like taking a shot of tequila every time I hear it. Like I could get drunk on the sound of you. Or hungover when I go too long without you.”

— Emily Henry

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

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

— Emily Henry

324. “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.”

— Emily Henry

325. “Tomorrow we will love each other a little more, and the next day, and the next day. And even on those days when one or both of us is having a hard time, we’ll be here, where we are completely known, completely accepted, by the person whose every side we love wholeheartedly. I’m here with all the versions of him I’ve met over twelve years of vacations, and even if the point of life isn’t just being happy, right now, I am. Down to the bones.”

— Emily Henry

326. “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.”

— Emily Henry

327. “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

328. “Again I feel that heart-pinch sensation, like I’m missing her, like all our best moments are behind us.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

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

— Emily Henry

334. “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

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

— Emily Henry

336. “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.”

— Emily Henry

337. “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

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

— Emily Henry

339. “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.”

— Emily Henry

340. “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.”

— Emily Henry

341. “Chain restaurants are the Murder She Wrote reruns of the food industry.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

343. “Maybe this is why people take trips, for that feeling of your real life liquefying around you, like nothing you do will tug on any other strand of your carefully built world. It’s a feeling not unlike reading a really good book: all-consuming, worry-obliterating.”

— Emily Henry

344. “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.”

— Emily Henry

345. “It’s a strange reversal, seeing the things my baby sister has mastered that I never got around to. 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.”

— Emily Henry

346. “It was just a story, and when one gaping plot hole appeared, the whole thing unraveled. That’s how stories work.”

— Emily Henry

347. “A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

349. “The first time she met the love of her father’s life was at his funeral.”

— Emily Henry

350. “Gus still thought he was missing something, some special piece other people had, the thing that made people stay, and it broke my heart a little. It broke my heart that when we were younger, he’d thought I’d never even look at him.”

— Emily Henry