Top 35 Emma Mills Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “So when I said that I’d always be your friend, I meant that... I always want to be there for you, no matter what. No matter which way. And if you don’t feel the same way, that’s okay. I understand. I’ll just... keep on loving you. All those other ways.”

— Emma Mills

2. “The perfect comeback only comes to you way after the offending incident, most especially when you’re alone in the shower with no one but the shampoo bottle to tell it to.”

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3. “As far as I was concerned, physical education was evil. You take a bunch of teenagers, make them strip down in front of each other in a locker room, have them don hideous matching uniforms, and then measure their worth based on their ability to chuck balls at a net, into a hoop, or at each other. It was just. Evil.”

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4. “Alone didn’t always mean lonely, but sometimes it did, and even then, she reveled in it. Lunches in the music room. Afternoons reading in the park. Loneliness was a kind of wanting, but it was also this incredible freedom. Not having to rely on anyone or have anyone rely on her. No one to disappoint or be disappointed by. Alone was good and comforting and dependable.”

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5. “But I did drive all the way here. And I put on a shirt with like an actual shape to it, which goes against my nonuniform, nonwork clothes policy of maximum comfort and minimal effort.”

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6. “I wish she were here.” She is, people would say. She’s smiling down at you. She’ll be with you every step of the way. Yes, I always wanted to reply. Yes, maybe. But that is nowhere near the same. It is in exactly no way the same as actually being.”

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7. “In truth, we are rarely all on the same page. More often than not, they’re all on one page, and I’ on a completely different one.”

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8. “I pulled out my phone and thought about calling someone, but who was there to call? And what would I even say? It was just the kind of unpleasant surprise you had to share with someone, but I didn’t have anybody to share it with.”

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9. “Dreams don’t have to be realistic- that’s why they’re dreams. You have to work to make them happen. Or else they would be... realities.”

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10. “It just is because it is, it exists because there’s no other way than it existing.”

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11. “It’s just... sometimes he says or does something so random it’s like he’s a life-form from another planet who’s failing at blending into life on earth but trying like really hard, and you just have to share it with other people.”

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12. “I had also never realized before that I loved him, but I did. And his pain was my pain, and it hurt, but it also felt good in a strange way, knowing that we could share in it together.”

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13. “I know that she hates change. She gets anxious about the future.”

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14. “A cute nickname was the first mile marker on Gag Highway, heading straight to Relationshipville. And making up the names of fake roads and cities to express your unhappiness was probably the first step to insanity.”

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15. “When I’m interested in a thing, I want to know about that thing. Extensively.”

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16. “Sometimes it’s hard to know if something’s for real? It’s hard to believe it, even if you want it to be real. Even if you want it so badly. Sometimes it seems... safer, you know. Not to risk it.”

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17. “The idea that it doesn’t matter what over people think about you gets thrown around a lot in high school, and in many instances it’s true. But I do care what certain people think of me.”

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18. “A page in the story of my life that I never could’ve anticipated.”

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19. “We should all find something to be weirdly passionate about, don’t you think?”

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20. “Something perfect can end and something broken can endure.”

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21. “A thousand electric cars could run on how you feel when you know that the person you like likes you back. It feels incredible. Like it shouldn’t be possible. Of all the happy coincidences to ever exist, it’s one of the happiest.”

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22. “But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.”

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23. “It’s weird. Sometimes it feels like we’re still the ones in the pictures, and everything that happened after happened to other people. And then sometimes we’re the other people, and the strangers are in the frames.”

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24. “You know those people where it’s like, you know they could kill you, but it would be a privilege to die by their hand?”

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25. “It was kind of funny – the thing that had annoyed me so much about him in the beginning was what I dearly appreciated now.”

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26. “There’s something soft in his expression that I don’t know what to do with, so I take another drink and then say, ‘There’s also this wizard we really want to fight’.”

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27. “But I guess it looked how some little part of me wanted things to look. Even if it was just for a second. Like some TV version of high school.”

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28. “The city pulses on around us, and I’m not sure which one of us is anchoring the others, but I’ve never felt less adrift.”

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29. “Maybe I don’t think the first part is the best part. Maybe I like the part later on. Hearing a song so many times you know all the little ins and outs of it. Experiencing something so many times that you can just... live in it. Maybe I like that better.”

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30. “You’re thinking really loudly.”

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31. “Wait,” he said, and he had his hand outstretched toward me, fingertips just brushing the sleeve of my sweatshirt, gently rooting me to the spot. I wanted to shrug him off, but at the same time, I wanted to fall against him and bury my face in his shoulder. I wanted to commiserate about what had just happened, and make sure he was okay, and discuss how Stanton really is psychotic. I did none of the above.”

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32. “What would a pie chart of your malicious to non-malicious thoughts look like? How big a piece of the pie is non-malicious?”

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33. “I think I get it, I really do. The appeal of the fic. At least for me. It’s the chance to remake something you love so that every little bit of it suits your vision for it. How it should have been in the past or how it should go in the future. How it would happen in an entirely different place, in an entirely different world.”

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34. “You don’t get that good by doing nothing.”

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35. “If you only like one version of your favorite, then they’re not your favorite,” she says primly, and I can’t really argue with that.”

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36. “She’s also ruthless and unforgiving and, some would say, ill-mannered and incredibly unpleasant. Somehow, this doesn’t seem to affect her political standing, but then again, that often seems to be the case in the real world as well.”

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37. “It was endearing, in that way that almost ached sometimes, how much my folks wanted Foster to be okay. And I think even more than I did, they wanted Foster to be normal. For me, being normal meant fitting in. For them, I think, it just meant being happy.”

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38. “Aurelie swallowed. “I’m afraid I have little use for things that have no purpose.” “Why not have something just because it brings you joy?”

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39. “What I really wanted was to kiss Ezra’s face off. And punch him in the arm. And then kiss his face off some more.”

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