Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Emily Henry

303. “Everything about my best friend was misleading to the men of Chicago. She was eccentric and loud, prone to heavy drinking and all-night partying, comfortable with casual hookups, always the funniest and most shocking person in any room, and she posted mostly nude selfies with increasing regularity. She was enigmatic, the closest to the stereotypical male fantasy I’d ever seen outside of a movie, but deep down she was, completely, a romantic.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

305. “I think life is about learning to dance even when you’re sitting still.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

309. “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

310. “I met you,” she says, “and I finally belonged somewhere again.”

— Emily Henry

311. “It’s incredibly annoying, but the second I’m comfortable again, I find myself smiling in the dark, feeling so unbelievably lucky to sleep every night beside my favorite person in the world. Even being uncomfortably warm is better with him.”

— Emily Henry

312. “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

313. “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

314. “Nine pages, about a boy who was born with a pair of wings. All his life, people tell him that this means he should try to fly. He’s afraid to. When he finally does, jumps off a two-story roof, he falls. He breaks his legs and wings. He never gets them reset. As he recovers, the bone heals in its misshapen form. Finally, people stop telling him that he must’ve been born to fly. Finally, he’s happy.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

316. “I wondered if he was simply tired, if life had beaten him into permanent slouch, folded him over himself so no one could get at that soft center-.”

— Emily Henry

317. “As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

319. “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

320. “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

321. “Mom’s calls became rare, and even when they did happen, they hit like a tornado. She’d cyclone through every detail of her week, then ask how I was doing, and if I hesitated too long she’d panic and excuse herself for some exercise class she’d forgotten about.”

— Emily Henry

322. “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

323. “There are full series I love whose last chapter I’ve never read. I hate the feeling of something ending.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

325. “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

326. “What about traveling?” I ask in the lull between songs. “What about it?” he says. “Love or hate?” His mouth presses into an even line as he considers. “Hard to say,” he replies. “I’ve never really been anywhere. Read about a lot of places, just haven’t seen any of them yet.” “Me neither,” I say. “Not yet.” He thinks for another moment. “Love,” he says. “I’m guessing love.” “Yeah.” I nod. “Me too.”

— 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. “I want you to know that bigger than my mistakes, bigger than anything good or bad I’ve ever done, and most completely unwavering has been my love for you.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

330. “Be my shark, Stephens.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

332. “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

333. “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

334. “We are two fundamentally incompatible people with absolutely no need to impress each other.”

— Emily Henry

335. “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

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

— Emily Henry

337. “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

338. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

341. “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

342. “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

343. “Even if it hurts, when he shimmers across my mind, it’s like remembering a favorite book. One that left you gutted, sure, but also one that changed you forever.”

— Emily Henry

344. “I was with him the night my mom died.”

— Emily Henry

345. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

348. “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

349. “Dads, as a concept, have always felt as irrelevant to my daily life as astronauts. I know they’re out there, but I rarely think about them. Suddenly, though, I can almost imagine it. I can almost miss it, this thing I never had.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry