Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “I love you. Ill love you forever and I’ll never stop.”

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53. “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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54. “Moment by moment, inhale by exhale, every heartbeat of hers against mine erased our separation. The lust consuming me all night revealed for what it truly was: my need to be with Josephine for the rest of my life. Not only her body but everything that she was: her scribbled words, her lonely heart and her victorious happiness.”

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55. “I felt like a piece of glass, shattered and scattered all over. I didn’t know who or what I was anymore, but I glittered prettily in the spotlight. I.”

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56. “I reached out gave her hand a squeeze. “We need to focus on the shopping now, Dar, or else we’ll succumb to the Curse of Target.” “What’s that?” “Where you walk in with a plan to spend twenty bucks, and you walk out having spent a hundred on.”

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57. “To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. – John Milton.”

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58. “Every day it feels less like something I shouldn’t be allowed to have, and more like something precious I can’t throw away.”

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59. “Own this love, Wes. It’s not just hers. It’s yours too.”

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60. “The past was done, and the future wasn’t created yet. All we had is now.”

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61. “You believed me. Or maybe you didn’t, but you accepted me. And that had never happened to me before.”

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62. “I’ll love her enough. I’ll love her enough she’ll never want for it. I’ll spend my entire life loving her and making her happy. And she will be happy.”

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63. “That’s part of the insidiousness of addiction, I thought. You remember the depth and blackness of the hole you were in and not the strength it took to pull yourself out. “I.”

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64. “I was lost in the dark without you, Beckett. You found me. You brought me home.”

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65. “When I saw Jonah’s face for the first time it was like seeing someone again after a long absence. Not a meeting, but a reunion.”

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66. “He held on. Weakly, struggling, in agony, he held on, drawing upon the great reservoirs of love and bravery I knew he possessed. He held on for his little girl. For his father. And I liked to think that maybe, if only a little, he held on because I refused to let him go.”

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67. “The stronger the love, the more helpless the person feels in the wake of its loss.”

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68. “No rules. Live out loud. Find the sunshine.”

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69. “I didn’t know it then – I couldn’t have – but in that moment, the rest of my life, or what was left of it, began.”

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70. “I wouldn’t touch you so quickly, I thought. I’d wait. Draw it out. Build up the moment so that when it happens – when each of us feels the other’s skin for the first time – it’ll be something sublime. Something earned.”

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71. “I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone’s art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business.”

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72. “There are times in this life in which we must do what is best, and so often what is best is not what is easy.”

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73. “You’re like if Brandi Carlile and Adele had a love child,” Phoebe said.”

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74. “What happened that made you feel you don’t deserve anything good for yourself?” A car screeching away, my mother’s curses turning to wailing cries. And me, running down the street. My legs pumping hard and fast, even though I knew I’d never catch him. Even though he was long gone. “Good feels out of reach,” I murmured. “I’ve had good before and I lost it.” “So now you only reach for that which doesn’t hurt to lose.”

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75. “Like any sugary treat, it tasted heavenly at first, but if you gorged on it, you’d be sick.”

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76. “I moved in close, put my head on Theo’s chest, pulled our clasped hands in to rest on his heart. “That’s better,” I said, tucking my head under his chin where it fit perfectly. “Yeah,” he said softly. “It is.”

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77. “For one short second, his hand rested on my shoulder. I wanted to take it and hold on all night, but the dark kept me limp and motionless. Still, I knew Theo was there. I wasn’t alone anymore. And that was enough. That was everything.”

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78. “And your characters were my friends and my family when I didn’t have any, and when I had nothing and no one to talk to, I had your books, and I just want to thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you so much. – Natalie.”

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79. “A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. –Mark Twain.”

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80. “Live every life but the one you want.” I scrubbed my face with my hands. “I don’t know.” “I do. A writer who chooses an economics major. A runner who ignores his gift. A poet’s heart now encased in a warrior’s armor.” Professor.”

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81. “We do not remember days, we remember moments. –Cesare Pavese.”

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82. “That’s my legacy: I loved you and was loved by you. I’m.”

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83. “Love and hope,” she said. “That’s life to me. Love for all the good that happens to you and the people you care about, and hope that any pain will be bearable or lessen in time.”

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84. “I wanted what they had. I wanted inside jokes and casual touches that said ‘I’m here, with you.’ I wanted someone who knew me so well, he could finish my sentences. Or knew when to say nothing at all. I.”

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85. “The only truth I have is that it’s for us. Everything I do is for us.”

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86. “Yeah, whatever,” I said finally, the two most unpoetic words in the English language.”

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87. “We were all whackos and head cases to a certain degree. Some were just better at hiding it. For some of us, hiding it was our life’s mission.”

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88. “As he was marched away, Evan looked back over his shoulder at me. Through his grief-stricken expression, he smiled. So sad, so full of love, and so full of what might have been. Then he was gone.”

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89. “Your thoughts aren’t inconsequential.”

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90. “I had a sense of being dropped straight into the middle of a book without having read the early chapters.”

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91. “Here’s a helpful hint: If you nod, I can’t see it. Or head shakes. Or shrugs. Or middle fingers. Or interpretive dances. When I ask you a question, you need to actually speak.”

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92. “The air around Weston was always electric. A crackling force field that kept people away, fueled by his barbed tongue and acid wit. If I reached through it to touch him, no doubt I’d be shocked. It would hurt like hell.”

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93. “You deserve to be loved out loud.”

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94. “I love you, Noah. With my heart and my soul and this body. With every part of me. I love you so much you don’t have to see it. You can feel it.”

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95. “I worried I would grow up to be trash too, and would hurt any woman I might someday love, so I vowed not to love anyone.”

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96. “What is death but a new beginning? And every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

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97. “Maybe. Maybe is gradations of darkness. The sweetest torture. Maybe is hope.”

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98. “Fight for you. For who you are. Fight for yourself and what you love. Who you love.”

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99. “I don’t know how to talk to people anymore.” Her voice sounded muffled, as if she were wiping her nose. “Yeah, I noticed. You’re like a walking Internet comment, just spewing whatever pops off the top of your head. You can’t do that with people in real life.”

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100. “It was time now to say goodbye to my brother. As I walked toward the door of his room, a carousel of images circled my head, each faded with time, as if they’d sat out in the bright sun too long.”

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