Top 500 Emily Henry Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I love you,” he said, and kissed my head. “And if you want, we can die alone together.”

— Emily Henry

402. “I spent my whole life thinking anyone outside my family who got too close, saw too much, wouldn’t want me anymore.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

404. “Like he can’t fathom that all my love for him didn’t just vanish, the way his did for me. That it had to go somewhere, and funneling it into anger is how I’ve managed to make it through these last two days.”

— Emily Henry

405. “It was crazy that I remembered that night in college so vividly that I knew he’d touched me just like this. That first touch when we met on the dance floor, featherlight and melting-point hot, careful, intentional.”

— Emily Henry

406. “He’s fully reading a book at the bar.”

— Emily Henry

407. “A cottage on the rocky shoreline, with knotty pine floorboards and windows that are nearly always open. The smell of evergreens and brine wafting in on the breeze, and white linen drapes lifting in a lazy dance. The burble of a coffee maker, and that first deep pull of cold ocean air as we step out onto the flagstone patio, steaming mugs in hand.”

— Emily Henry

408. “I want any universe but that one. All the rest, where it’s him and me, scattered across time and space, finding our way to each other again and again, the one constant, the only essential.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

410. “But it was all of Gus’s minor imperfections – his scars and ridges, crooked lines and sharp edges – and how they added up that had always made it hard for me to stop looking at him, and made me want to see more.”

— Emily Henry

411. “Look! I’m fine! Look! I have every beautiful thing you wanted for me! Look! It hasn’t affected me at all!”

— Emily Henry

412. “I hadn’t felt like this in years – that almost painful weight of wanting, that paralyzing fear that any wrong move would ruin everything.”

— Emily Henry

413. “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.”

— Emily Henry

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

— Emily Henry

415. “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.”

— Emily Henry

416. “A faint smile flickered across his lips, then fell as he thought. ′ I don’t think I’ve ever loved the world like you do. I remember being afraid of it. And then angry with it. And then just – deciding not to feel too strongly about it.”

— Emily Henry

417. “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

418. “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

419. “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.”

— Emily Henry

420. “Gus’s eyes dipped to my mouth, then rose to my eyes. “I thought – think it’s brave to believe in love. I mean, the lasting kind. To try for that, even knowing it can hurt you.”

— Emily Henry

421. “Time collapses, and instead of the version of you you’ve built from scratch, you’re all the hackneyed drafts that came before, all at once.”

— Emily Henry

422. “Charlie looks away first. He rubs the side of his jaw. “You’re right. I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to accept this can’t be anything.”

— Emily Henry

423. “You can take my life,” I yelped, dodging his hands, “you can take my freedom, but you’ll never take this goddamn yearbook from me, Gus.”

— Emily Henry

424. “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

425. “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

426. “Libby!” I shriek, realization dawning. “Why the hell are you on a dating app?” “I’m not,” she says. “You are.” “I am definitely not,” I say. “I made an account for you,” she says. “It’s a new app. Very marriage minded. I mean, it’s called Marriage of Minds.” “MOM?” I say. “The acronym for the app is MOM? Sometimes I worry about the severe lack of warning bells in your brain, Libby.”

— Emily Henry

427. “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

428. “Until you got here,” he rasps, “ all this place had ever been was a reminder of all the ways I was a disappointment, and now you’re here and – I don’t know. I feel like I’m okay. So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”

— Emily Henry

429. “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.”

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

— Emily Henry

431. “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

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

— Emily Henry

433. “That these are the glory days,” Cleo says. “That we’re as close as we used to be, when the truth is, it’s different. We’re different.”

— Emily Henry

434. “I had to admit there was something singularly hilarious about line dancing angrily.”

— Emily Henry

435. “I’m not ashamed of my upbringing, but the more you tell a person about yourself, the more power you hand over.”

— Emily Henry

436. “The lake froze so far out that we could even walk on it past the lighthouse where my father had once ridden his tricycle into. And what was more, the water froze so high and the snow piled on top of it such that we could walk right up to the top of the lighthouse, stand on it like it was part of some lost civilization underneath us, Gus’s arm hooked around my neck as he hummed, It’s June in January, because I’m in love.”

— Emily Henry

437. “Time to panic?” he asks. “Not yet,” I say. “Try to sleep.” “Because I need to be well rested when I meet Death.”

— Emily Henry

438. “You have the red splotches, Nora,” he teases, drawing his lips over my throat. “Are you mad at me?”

— Emily Henry

439. “You’re as small as you are ridiculous.”

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440. “I exit the email with the ferocity of a teenager slamming a door and screaming, You’re not my real dad!”

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441. “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

442. “What a beautiful, twisted brain you have, Nora.”

— Emily Henry

443. “I’m a very tall five four, actually,” I said. He narrowed his eyes and shook his head at me. “You’re as small as you are ridiculous.”

— Emily Henry

444. “You’re so bad at lying. It looks like your face muscles are being controlled by a half dozen amateur puppeteers.”

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445. “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

446. “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

447. “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

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

— Emily Henry

449. “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

450. “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