Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

— Emma Scott

2. “You are a universe, Kacey. I kept waiting to find the end of your love and beauty, the end of your generous heart. I never did. I never will.”

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3. “Einstein says, I have no special talents. I’m just passionately curious.”

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4. “Change is hard in the beginning, messy in the middle, and beautiful at the end.”

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5. “Someday isn’t a day of the week. It doesn’t come around automatically. You gotta go out there and get it.”

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6. “Every minute you’re alive is a second chance to start over. I honor my past, but I don’t live in it. I choose this moment instead. Right here.”

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7. “I would love you forever, Kacey, if I only had the chance.”

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8. “You can prepare all you want for someday. Nothing prepares you for the day of.”

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9. “You are a universe.”

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10. “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”

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11. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along,” she recited.”

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12. “I once read that you fell in love like how you fell asleep: slowly at first and then all at once.”

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13. “Jesus, will you shut up already and let me take care of you?”

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14. “I’m more afraid of not being with you than I am of being with you.”

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15. “We can’t choose who we love.”

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16. “Make it sing, Charlotte, and maybe think of me when you do.”

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17. “Willow Tree Its limbs the long hair of a sad girl, reaching for the ground. ‘Sturdy as an oak,’ they say. A willow is stronger. It bends to the storm. Harsh winds whip it, its leaves are torn and carried away. It bends but doesn’t break. It may weep but it will never fall.”

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18. “Feelings,” I said, “are like tonsils. Mostly useless, and occasionally a source of pain and discomfort.”

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19. “We had to go full tilt, just like the card players did. I would hit instead of stay. Always.”

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20. “I hated single. I hated empty beds and silent mornings. I loved long talks, longer kisses and the feeling of having a partner as I navigated the world; one who would fill many chapters in the story of my life.”

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21. “You are the only peace I’ve ever known.”

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22. “That you can find beauty everywhere, even in the things that scare you the most.”

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23. “You are my home. Where you are is home.”

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24. “Wasn’t love a kind of chaos theory? One small look, one smile or one word could alter the course of a life forever.”

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25. “Because what are we if we aren’t our memories? Who are we without them? Where are we in this life? They anchor us to all the who, what, and where. Without memory, we might as well be dead.”

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26. “Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name. – Ovid.”

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27. “Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.”

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28. “A semicolon is where a writer can choose to end the sentence,” she said, tucking a lock of brown hair behind her ear. “But they don’t. The story goes on. It’s a symbol of hope. To keep going.” She smiled tremulously. “Sometimes I need that reminder.”

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29. “Love, real love, wasn’t empty, grasping hands, or lies that felt like truths. And it wasn’t perfect or neat or always easy. It was a rising sun on a new day. It was endless possibility.”

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30. “The feeling you have in that moment right as you wake up, before your brain mucks it all up with thoughts and words? That very first feeling is where the truth lives.”

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31. “Or maybe pain is just pain, and we romanticize the hell out of it to make it survivable.”

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32. “Lessening the misery of the past will lead to a brighter future.”

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33. “We might not have months or years, but we have moments. Thousands upon thousands of them. Let’s take each moment, seize it and wring it dry.”

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34. “I always get attached,” I said. “I can’t help myself. I don’t want casual, I want electricity. I want someone I can talk to for ages, someone who sets my blood on fire. And not just physically, you know?”

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35. “He kissed me as if I were something delicate and precious, something he cherished and held with reverence. “My first kiss. This is my first real kiss.”

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36. “I felt him in every pore, every breath and beat of our hearts. I’d never experienced anything like this in my life. He was a universe. My love for him was just as boundless.”

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37. “I kissed Jonah Fletcher with all of my heart, and with every piece of my soul that would love him forever.”

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38. “A butterfly flutters its wings in Malaysia and the changes in air currents cause a hurricane in Florida. I love that idea. That even one tiny action can create an enormous effect.”

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39. “Because it felt better to rebuild bridges than it did to watch them burn.”

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40. “My world had been fading to gray until she burst in like a bombshell of color and light...”

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41. “It felt like I’d lost something I didn’t know I wanted. And I realized you could get used to anything – even being alone for years – right until the moment you touched something better than what you had.”

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42. “Forgetting is pretending it never happened. You need to remember and remember and remember, until it has no power over you anymore.”

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43. “Whenever the urge to kiss him came over me, I would kiss him. No more living life halfway. We had to go full tilt, just like the card players did. I would hit instead of stay. Always. We.”

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44. “I love you. Ill love you forever and I’ll never stop.”

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45. “Beauty and pain,” she said, almost to herself. “I don’t think you can separate the two.” “Maybe pain exists to make us appreciate the beauty,” I said.”

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46. “Cleopatra thought she’d be alone forever. Death was the better choice.” She looked up at me. “Maybe she’s right. Anything is better than alone.”

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47. “You deserve to be loved as you are, Darlene. Not in bits and pieces.”

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48. “Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It’s a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there’s nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen.”

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49. “I’m going to leave you,” I said, my voice hardly more than a whisper. The words hung between us, the crux of all our pain and tears and hesitation. But Kacey smiled – smiled – with brave tears sliding down her cheeks. “Not yet. Not tonight. We might not have months or years, but we have moments. Thousands upon thousands of them. Let’s take each moment, seize it and wring it dry.”

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50. “She leaned into me, kissed my neck. “You always say you’re beautiful, instead of you look beautiful.” I shrugged. “Both true.” “Yes, but one is a sweet compliment about how I might look at the moment, and the other feels like you’re describing who I am.”

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