Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I’d had the conversation I’d been dreading all summer. I’d gone into the rooms I’d kept closed. I’d fallen in love and felt my heart break, and I’d heard than I wanted to hear, and I was on my feet. The beautiful lies were all gone. Destroyed. And I was still upright.”

— Emily Henry

402. “The ragged edge of his voice knocks the wind out of me. I fight the impulse to rein in my shock, and then it all clicks, the bits of Charlie I’ve been collecting like puzzle pieces becoming a full picture. Not the Darcy trope. Not the self-important, dour academic I met for one very unpleasant lunch. A man who craves complete honesty, the realist who doesn’t always understand when he’s not seeing realism. Charlie, who wants to understand the world but has learned not to trust it.”

— Emily Henry

403. “With him, I wanted more. It was who I was.”

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404. “Now, at twenty-nine, I was miserable, broke, semi-homeless, very single, and pulling up to a gorgeous lake house whose very existence nauseated me. Grandly romanticizing my life had stopped serving me, but my fatal flaw was still riding shotgun in my dinged-up Kia Soul, narrating things as they happened:.”

— Emily Henry

405. “I saw that with my parents, you know? This black hole and this bright light he was always just trying to swallow whole.”

— Emily Henry

406. “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

407. “I really, really wasn’t, but somehow, that was enough to cool the harsh sting of all those memories. He saw me, and he loved me.”

— Emily Henry

408. “It wasn’t fun anymore, now that I was thinking it all through, where it would end up – with me attached and jealous and him having shared about as much about his life with me as you might with a hairdresser.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

410. “It’s one thing to accept that the person I love most is fundamentally unknowable to me; it’s another to accept that she doesn’t quite see me either.”

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411. “Dad comes around first. He starts sending me articles about the mental benefits of making pottery, and texts about a new TV competition between ceramists.”

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412. “If I’m good enough, I’ll be happy. I’ll be loved. I’ll be safe.”

— Emily Henry

413. “No one else’s happiness is yours to grant, Mom, I tell her. You need to find yours.”

— Emily Henry

414. “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

415. “But what if having a baby changes me? What if the gulf gets wider and wider until we don’t have anything in common?”

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416. “There were still pieces of us we so badly wished each other could see and yet couldn’t make ourselves ask for, and there was anger and resentment and it still all hurt, but right now, we were here, and if we stayed long enough, things might start to heal, even a little bit.”

— Emily Henry

417. “Falling’s the part that takes your breath away. It’s the part when you can’t believe the person standing in front of you both exists and happened to wander into your path. It’s supposed to make you feel lucky to be alive, exactly when and where you are.”

— Emily Henry

418. “I’ve always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that’s it. There’s something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel like I’m okay.”

— Emily Henry

419. “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

420. “People always talk about compartmentalization like it’s a bad thing, but I love the way that, when I work, everything else seems to get folded away neatly into drawers, the books I’m working on swelling to the forefront, immersing me every bit as wholly as reading my favorite chapter books did when I was a kid. Like there’s nothing to worry over, plan, mourn, or figure out.”

— Emily Henry

421. “I can’t be a break from your real life and I won’t be the thing that keeps you from having what you want.”

— Emily Henry

422. “Suddenly, though, I can also imagine it. I can almost miss it, this thing I never had.”

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423. “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

424. “Sonya. The name hit my stomach like a hammer. Before I’d even seen her, my mouth went dry. My vision fuzzed at the corners.”

— Emily Henry

425. “As soon as I hit send, I snap to my senses. Why, of all the words available to me, is this what I said? Maybe my brain is organized by the Dewey decimal system, but right now all the shelves seem to be on fire.”

— Emily Henry

426. “The three things she knew, without doubt, that he’d loved were books, boats, and January.”

— Emily Henry

427. “When did writing get so hard? I wrote back. Hard, he wrote. He wasn’t always the instigator. On Wednesday, after resisting as long as I possibly could, I wrote, Wish you were here and drew an arrow down toward myself.”

— Emily Henry

428. “It doesn’t mean I don’t want you, January – I’ve always wanted you. It just means I also want you to be happy, and I’m scared I could never be the person who could give you that.”

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429. “Across the table, his eyes meet mine. His overgrown hair is damp from the rain, tucked behind his ears. So many of his details are slightly different, but my heart still sees him and whispers into my veins, You. Hearts can be so stupid.”

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430. “God, Poppy”, he says. “I spent so much time trying not to want you”.”

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431. “Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time.”

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432. “Then she got choked up, because camping was something she and Hank used to do. “When we were first dating and had no money,” she explained. Then, after a teary laugh, she added, “And once we’d been married for decades and still had no money.”

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433. “Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.”

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434. “I love being up before anyone else and seeing the sunrise every day, being outside with the vegetables and the sunshine.”

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435. “Tomorrow we will love each other a little more, and the next day, and the next day. And even on those days when one or both of us is having a hard time, we’ll be here, where we are completely known, completely accepted, by the person whose every side we love wholeheartedly. I’m here with all the versions of him I’ve met over twelve years of vacations, and even if the point of life isn’t just being happy, right now, I am. Down to the bones.”

— Emily Henry

436. “I’m saying,” Rachel replies, “that purpose matters more than contentment.”

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437. “Sometimes I think that’s why we’re so drawn to each other. Because he’s used to being the steadfast big brother and I’m used to being the annoying little sister. It’s a dynamic we understand: I lovingly tease him; he makes the entire world feel safer for me.”

— Emily Henry

438. “I hoped that what he was understanding right then was that I saw him. That he didn’t have to do anything special, figure out a mysterious code to unlock the secret parts of him. That he just had to keep being here with me, letting me discover him bit by bit like he’d been doing with me since we met.”

— Emily Henry

439. “How are you more successful at dating than me,” he says, awed by the mystery of it all. “Easy,” I say. “I have lower standards. And no Flannery O’Connor to get in the way. And when I go out to bars, I don’t spend the whole time scowling at Yelp reviews and forcefully projecting DON’T TALK TO ME. Also, I am, arguably, gorgeous from certain angles.”

— Emily Henry

440. “I knew he wasn’t writing to save lives so much as to understand what had destroyed them.”

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441. “She’s frustrated with how much I work, and that’s creating distance. The distance has her keeping secrets. The secrets have me frustrated with her. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, keeping us locked in an invisible, unspoken argument, wherein we both pretend nothing’s wrong.”

— Emily Henry

442. “You’ve always been Poppy.”

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443. “Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt.”

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444. “You couldn’t possibly think I had a second house with some woman other than your mother?”

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445. “I’ve never really known how to look at art without someone else there to be my guidepost.”

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446. “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.”

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447. “And I’m probably going to have to stop a lot and set you down, and you’re not allowed to call me Seabiscuit, or scream Faster! Faster! in my ear.”

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448. “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.”

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449. “There’s a heavenly bakery in one corner, and a whole local snacks section, and between the six of us, it’s like shopping with very bougie, somewhat drunk toddlers, one person wandering off every time the rest of us are ready to go.”

— Emily Henry

450. “I still feel sick and worried and angry, but at moments, I’m also happy.”

— Emily Henry