Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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.”

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353. “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

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

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

— Emily Henry

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

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

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358. “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

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

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360. “Every time his expression changed, I used to think the new one was my favourite. 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.”

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361. “Overthinking is the thing I’m best at, though.”

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362. “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

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

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364. “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.”

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365. “Sometimes we lose the ability to create simply because we’re tired. We need to rest and recover. But other times, we can’t move forward because there are hard questions we have to ask first. Hurdles in our path we first have to jump or walls that need breaking down – interrogations demanding to be made.”

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366. “And not the universal kind of handsome that almost dulls itself with objectivity.”

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367. “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.”

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

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

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370. “The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living.”

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371. “So all I can do is cry with her. 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. That we can both survive this pain without the other shouldering it.”

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372. “Somehow, my voice comes steady and light, and not like someone reached into my rib cage and held my heart inside his hand just long enough to run a thumb across a secret wound.”

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

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374. “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.”

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375. “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.”

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376. “I felt so lost again. Every time I started to find my way, I seemed to slip further down. How could I trust what Gus and I have? How could I trust my own feelings? People were complicated. They weren’t math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck. The world was complicated too, not a beautifully hazy French film, but a disastrous, horrible mess, speckled with brilliance and love and meaning.”

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377. “This is a feed of curated imagery meant to make you pine for a life that does not exist. I get paid for this.”

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378. “It’s never taken effort – that’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface. Today is different.”

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

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380. “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.”

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381. “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.”

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382. “This was meant to be the moment that I became the adult, hugging her tight, promising everything would be okay, taking her pain. That’s what grown daughters did for their mothers. But back in the church, I’d torn in half and everything had spilled out of me into plain view for the first time.”

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383. “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.”

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

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385. “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.”

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386. “Wyn’s head droops against my shoulder, his laughter spilling across my skin, dripping down my spine, lighting up my nerve endings as it goes.”

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387. “After that, the two of them seemed more in love than ever. There was more dancing. More hand – holding. More romantic weekend getaways. More of Dad saying things like, “Your mother has been a lot of people in the twenty years I’ve known her, and I’ve had a chance to fall in love with every single one of them, Janie. That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”

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388. “Con: Do I really want my professional nemesis texting me Bigfoot erotica? Pro: Yes I do.”

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389. “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.”

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390. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”

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391. “If she can’t be there, there’s no point in dreaming at all.”

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

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393. “I wanted to be special, Harriet,” he says. “And since I wasn’t, I settled for trying to make everyone love me. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but it’s true. I spent my whole life chasing things and people who could make me feel like I mattered.”

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394. “Then again, sometimes when you guess about people, you end up very wrong.”

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

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396. “It’s June in January, because I’m in love.”

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397. “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?”

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398. “You try to be fair, to see things from other people’s points of view, and sometimes that makes it hard for you to see them from your own, but you have one.”

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399. “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.”

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400. “You’re home to me, Alex. And I think I’m that for you too.”

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