Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.”

— Emily Henry

402. “All day long, I hear myself saying this same phrase, like I’m desperate to get it out of my body even as I feel incapable: I am having a hard time.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

404. “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

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

— Emily Henry

406. “You know, I think my favorite parts of life are the things I didn’t know I wanted.”

— Emily Henry

407. “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

408. “I hadn’t had a sleepover like that since I was probably eight: the sort where you keep talking, eyes long since shut, until you both drift off midsentence.”

— Emily Henry

409. “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

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

— Emily Henry

411. “Is there anything worse than a man who thinks he’s above the laws of the social contract just because he was born with a decent face and a fat wallet?”

— Emily Henry

412. “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

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

— Emily Henry

414. “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

415. “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

416. “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

417. “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

418. “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

419. “I did what any reasonable adult woman would do when confronted with her college rival turned next-door neighbor. I dove behind the nearest bookshelf.”

— Emily Henry

420. “Gus touched the side of my face. “I don’t need snowflakes.” He kissed me. “As long as I have January.”

— Emily Henry

421. “I didn’t even remember to miss her until I got home. That’s how it always is when I’m with you. No one else matters.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

423. “Maybe that’s why he can handle the public affection. Maybe, like me, when we’re together he feels like no one else is there, like they’re phantoms we dreamed up as set dressing.”

— Emily Henry

424. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

426. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

430. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

432. “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

433. “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

434. “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

435. “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

436. “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.”

— Emily Henry

437. “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

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

— Emily Henry

439. “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

440. “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.”

— Emily Henry

441. “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.”

— Emily Henry

442. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

447. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

449. “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

450. “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