Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Emily Henry

403. “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

404. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

407. “Do you think I’m terrible, January? It’s okay if you do. I have been terrible at many different moments in my life.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

415. “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

416. “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

417. “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

418. “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

419. “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

420. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

423. “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

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

— Emily Henry

425. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

428. “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

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

— Emily Henry

430. “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

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

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

433. “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

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

— Emily Henry

435. “When I look back up at him, he’s beaming at me, and I think, I love you more now than I ever have.”

— Emily Henry

436. “Everyone wants a golden retriever,” he says in a low voice. As ridiculous a statement as it is, he looks serious, concerned.”

— Emily Henry

437. “Happy for now.” I tasted the words, rolled them over the back of my tongue like wine. The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living. And I was. Happy for now.”

— Emily Henry

438. “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

439. “That is what I’m looking for every time I flip to the back of a book, compulsively checking for proof that in a life where so many things have gone wrong, there can be beauty too. That there is always hope, no matter what.”

— Emily Henry

440. “I’m afraid of you realizing I bore you.”

— Emily Henry

441. “Okay, definitely should’ve just gotten our hair cut here,” Libby says, though I silently disagree, based on the dripping-blood-style letters on the sign and the fact that they spell out Curl Up N Dye.”

— Emily Henry

442. “There’s that Poppy, who’s experiencing it all and having the most magical night of her life. And then there’s the one who’s already missing it, who’s watching this all happen from some point in the distance, knowing I can never go back and do it all over again.”

— Emily Henry

443. “I picked through buckets of cut flowers, longing for the days when I could afford a bundle of daisies for the kitchen, calla lilies for the nightstand in the bedroom. Of course, that had been back when Jacques and I were sharing an apartment. When you were renting in New York by yourself, there wasn’t much money for things that smelled good for a week, then died in front of you.”

— Emily Henry

444. “There were thousands of times I’d thought, He is the perfect boyfriend. But once my dad was gone, and I was furious with him but also couldn’t stop missing him, I realized I’d never thought, “Jacques is so perfectly my favorite person.”

— Emily Henry

445. “It could still happen. Life’s long.”

— Emily Henry

446. “Or I could just stay in this bathroom, forever. I had wine; had a toilet; what else did one need?”

— Emily Henry

447. “Those were the endings I found solace in. The ones that said, Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too.”

— Emily Henry

448. “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

449. “I want to enjoy it while it’s happening, not just for where it might get me eventually.”

— Emily Henry

450. “His mother had stayed with his father, no matter the cost, and part of that had been her son learning to hate his own name.”

— Emily Henry