Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Because nothing – not the beautiful and not the terrible – lasts.”

— Emily Henry

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

307. “You have no idea how badly I wish I could be enough.”

— Emily Henry

308. “This is why crushes are terrible. You go from feeling like life is a flat path one needs only to cruise over to spending every second on an incline, or caught in a weightless, stomach-in-your-throat drop.”

— Emily Henry

309. “There are easier places to live, but New York’s a city filled with hungry people, their shared want a thrumming energy.”

— Emily Henry

310. “Instead of trying to convince myself that someday everything would be okay, I focused on the fact that, right now, it already was.”

— Emily Henry

311. “I had so many questions but all of them were nebulous, unaskable. In my own story, I didn’t want to be the heroine who let some silly miscommunication derail something obviously good, but in my real life, I felt like I’d rather risk that and keep my dignity than keep laying everything out for Gus until he finally came right out and admitted he didn’t want me the way I wanted him.”

— Emily Henry

312. “What if I’m bad at it?” I ask. “Being a parent.” He sweeps my hair back from my neck. “You won’t be.” “You don’t know that,” I say. “I do,” he says. “How?” I say. “Because you’re good at loving,” he says. “And that’s all you have to do.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

314. “So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”

— Emily Henry

315. “On that first drive back to Linfield, you asked me all these questions about what I liked and what I hated, and I don’t know. It just felt like you really wanted to know.” “Of course I did,” I say. He nods. “I know. 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

316. “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

317. “This is how grief works. It watches; it waits; it hollows you out, again and again.”

— Emily Henry

318. “Every moment of every day, I was tripping backward while the rest of the world marched forward.”

— Emily Henry

319. “I think, even if things don’t stay like this, I will always carry this moment in me.”

— Emily Henry

320. “I’d made my parents laugh. I’d made them proud. I’d brought home solid grades, fought tooth and nail to keep up with Gus Everett. I’d stayed up late reading with Dad and gotten up early to pretend I liked yoga with Mom. I’d told them about my life, asked them endlessly about theirs so I’d never regret wasting time with them. And I hid the complicated feelings that came with trying to memorize someone you loved, just in case.”

— Emily Henry

321. “He whispers, “You’re not that tall.” I whisper back, “I’m as tall as you.” “I’m not that tall,” he says. What my body hears is, Let’s make out.”

— Emily Henry

322. “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

323. “I would have placed it sooner, but it smells different on him, the way Mom’s signature lemon-lavender scent hits differently on Libby, a note of vanilla drawn out that was never there before.”

— Emily Henry

324. “Working towards your goals can be very lonely, and professional burnout is always a challenge.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

326. “It feels like there’s poison inside of me. No matter how hard I run, I can’t burn through it. For once, I wish I could cry, but I can’t.”

— Emily Henry

327. “Though it is called Spaaaahhh, which gives me pause. It’s unclear whether that’s meant to be read as a sigh or a scream.”

— Emily Henry

328. “It always surprised me, how quickly the ratio of his face could change. In a second, he can go from that broody, tender look to almost boyish delight. Every time his expression changed, I used to think the new one was my favorite. Until it changed again and I had to accept that whichever Wyn was directly in front of me, that was the one I loved most.”

— Emily Henry

329. “I’ve often thought the world saves its very best weather for days when you feel like everything has gone wrong.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

331. “My life turned out how I hoped it would, and now I just miss wanting something.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

333. “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

334. “I resist the urge to scroll through to the end, a tic I’ve had since I was a kid, when I realized there were too many books in the world and not enough time.”

— Emily Henry

335. “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

336. “Want is a kind of thief. It’s a door in your heart, and once you know it’s there, you’ll spend your life longing for whatever’s behind.”

— Emily Henry

337. “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

338. “Hundreds of nights I’d chosen not to cry. Thousands of moments I worried about worrying. That if I did it, I’d make things worse for my parents. That I needed to be strong. That I needed to be happy so I wouldn’t drag them down.”

— Emily Henry

339. “Something about that made my insides feel like a ribbon being drawn across scissors until it curled.”

— Emily Henry

340. “People like to remember childhood as all magic and no responsibilities, but that’s not really how it is. You have absolutely no control over your environment. It all comes down to the adults in your life.”

— Emily Henry

341. “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

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

— Emily Henry

343. “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

344. “I’m crying because I’m relieved. Because I will never again feel as alone as I did during those long nights as a kid. As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.”

— Emily Henry

345. “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

346. “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

347. “Her laugh,′ she said finally ‘She snorted when she laughed.’ The corner of my mouth inched up but a new heaviness settled across my chest. ‘I love when people do that,’ I admitted. ‘My best friend does it. I always feel like she’s drowning in life. In a good way. Like it’s rushing up her nose, you know?”

— Emily Henry

348. “The world looks different than I ever thought it could be, and I don’t want to look for what’s broken or what could go wrong. I don’t want to brace myself for the worst and miss out on being with you.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry