Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

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

— Emily Henry

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

358. “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

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

— Emily Henry

360. “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

361. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

363. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

366. “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

367. “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.”

— Emily Henry

368. “I spent all last summer thinking I’d never be happy again, and now, a year later, I still feel sick and worried and angry, but at moments, I’m also happy.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

370. “Thank you, I mouth. His chin dips as he smiles. Anything for you, he mouths. In my chest, something heavy turns over.”

— Emily Henry

371. “Again I feel that heart-pinch sensation, like I’m missing her, like all our best moments are behind us.”

— Emily Henry

372. “I knew the only thing more painful than being without him would be being together knowing I no longer truly had him.”

— Emily Henry

373. “I didn’t know it was possible to miss a person this much while she was sitting right next to you, so badly everything in you aches.”

— Emily Henry

374. “If I went to a shelter to pick up a foster dog, there’s no guarantee I woudn’t come home having adopted six of them and a wild coyote.”

— Emily Henry

375. “I’m tired of trying to be smart at the expense of my own happiness. I want this to be forever, and I don’t want to pretend that’s not what I want.”

— Emily Henry

376. “I needed those people because I felt alone. I thought I had to run hundreds of miles away from here to find some place to belong. I spent my whole life thinking anyone outside my family who got too close, saw too much, wouldn’t want me anymore. The safest thing was those quick, serendipitous moments with strangers. That’s all I thought I could have.”

— Emily Henry

377. “Alex sets his book down. “I tell you what. You can have my summer breaks. I’ll keep those wide open for you, and we’ll go anywhere you want, that we can afford.” “Really?” I say, dubious. “Promise.” He holds out his hand, and we shake on it, then sit there grinning for a few seconds feeling like we’ve signed some life-alteringly significant contract.”

— Emily Henry

378. “It’s okay,′ he whispers, rocking me back and forth. ‘You’re not alone,’ he promises, and beneath it I hear the unsaid rest: I’m here.”

— Emily Henry

379. “Her fatigue has made her look insubstantial, faded, like if I tried to brush her hair away from her brow, my fingers might pass through her. I didn’t know it was possible to miss a person this much while she was sitting right next to you, so badly everything in you aches.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

381. “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

382. “He made the world open up around me, like there were colors I’d never seen, new levels of happiness I couldn’t have imagined.”

— Emily Henry

383. “Sometimes – sometimes good, or at least decent, people do bad things. And sometimes they actually believe they’re doing what’s right.”

— Emily Henry

384. “It was just a story I’d been telling myself. From now on, it was the ugly truth or nothing.”

— Emily Henry

385. “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

386. “I don’t know how fights are supposed to end when you love the person you’re fighting with.”

— Emily Henry

387. “A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.”

— Emily Henry

388. “I read once that sunflowers always orient themselves to face the sun. That’s what being near Charlie Lastra is like for me. There could be a raging wildfire racing toward me from the west and I’d still be straining eastward toward his warmth.”

— Emily Henry

389. “As he watches me, he murmurs, “I’ve just always wanted to see a shark attack up close. So much blood.”

— Emily Henry

390. “Yes, New York is exhausting. Yes, there are millions of people all swimming upstream, but you’re also in it together.”

— Emily Henry

391. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

394. “The first time Sal and I visited him in New York, it all made perfect sense. It was like he’d been living half volume until that moment. That’s not what a parent wants for their kid.”

— Emily Henry

395. “And other times, we’d sit in silence, not quite together but definitely not alone.”

— Emily Henry

396. “We swept past a kitchen whose granite countertops were crowded with liquor bottles and stepped into the living room at the back of the house. “Normally, we use the garden, but normally God isn’t bowling a perfect game overhead, so inside will have to do tonight. We’re just waiting on one more.”

— Emily Henry

397. “But more often than any of those places, when I need to feel safe and happy, I go home.”

— Emily Henry

398. “I thought missing my Dad would be the hardest thing I’d ever do; but the worst thing, the hardest thing, had turned out to be angry with someone you couldn’t fight it out with.”

— Emily Henry

399. “The ones that speak to me are those whose final pages admit there is no going back. That every good thing must end. That every bad thing does too, that everything does.”

— Emily Henry

400. “Halfway through the tour, we skip out and go to Cafe Lalo instead, determined to sit just where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks did in You’ve Got Mail.”

— Emily Henry