Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I think life is about learning to dance even when you’re sitting still.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

305. “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

306. “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

307. “There would be purpose. There would be beauty. There would be candlelight and Fleetwood Mac playing softly in the background.”

— Emily Henry

308. “I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye.”

— Emily Henry

309. “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

310. “I already told you, Nora,” he murmurs, his fingers splaying on my stomach, just beneath my shirt. “I’ll go anywhere with you.”

— Emily Henry

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Emily Henry

320. “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

321. “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

322. “Be my shark, Stephens.”

— Emily Henry

323. “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

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

— Emily Henry

325. “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

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

— Emily Henry

327. “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

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

— Emily Henry

329. “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

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

— Emily Henry

331. “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

332. “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

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

— Emily Henry

334. “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

335. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

338. “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

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

— Emily Henry

340. “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

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

— Emily Henry

342. “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

343. “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

344. “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

345. “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

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

— Emily Henry

347. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

350. “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