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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “People like me aren’t broken beyond repair. No ice ever freezes too thick to thaw and no thorns ever grow too dense to be cut away.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

309. “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

310. “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

311. “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

312. “Please don’t apologize for letting me know you.”

— Emily Henry

313. “I’ve never really known how to look at art without someone else there to be my guidepost.”

— Emily Henry

314. “Even if Jason Stanley and every other bully from my past were here, mocking me through a megaphone, I don’t think I’d stop dancing clumsily with Alex in the street.”

— Emily Henry

315. “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

316. “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

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

— Emily Henry

318. “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

319. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

322. “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

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

— Emily Henry

324. “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

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

— Emily Henry

326. “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

327. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

332. “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

333. “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

334. “The world’s always going to need surgeons, but it’s going to need bowls too. Forget what you think anyone else wants. What do you want?”

— Emily Henry

335. “You load the dishwasher wrong,” I say. He breaks into a smile. “Wrong?” “Fine, not wrong,” I say. “But in a way that I hate.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

340. “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

341. “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

342. “Sometimes I think that’s why we’re so drawn to each other. Because he’s used to being the steadfast big brother and I’m used to being the annoying little sister. It’s a dynamic we understand: I lovingly tease him; he makes the entire world feel safer for me.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

344. “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

345. “I always figured that when I grew up, I’d leave my hometown and discover other people like me somewhere else.”

— Emily Henry

346. “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

347. “If I could speak, I’d tell him this is the best kiss I’ve had in my entire life. That I didn’t know just kissing could feel this good.”

— Emily Henry

348. “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

349. “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

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

— Emily Henry