Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Lust, passion, and love becoming one sensation of overwhelming want.”

— Emma Scott

102. “Every time I see you, I think, This is it. She cannot possibly look more beautiful than she does right now. And then I see you the next time.”

— Emma Scott

103. “Sometimes the mind shrinks away from what the heart wants because what the heart wants is so good, so impossibly extraordinary, that to keep it forever would be a miracle. The mind can imagine losing everything, while the heart can’t. It only wants what it wants.”

— Emma Scott

104. “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.”

— Emma Scott

105. “If I could see just once more – just one thing in this world – it would be you. I would only need a second. One second, and I would hold the image of you in my heart forever.”

— Emma Scott

106. “Because the idea of failure, of living without her in my life, was a nightmare worse than blindness.”

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107. “Love had no end. She was infinite. She was a universe, my universe, and I was hers. Love had no boundaries, no rules, no favorites. And no limits.”

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108. “When you hold tightly to something behind you, you cannot move forward. The answer is to unclench your heart from the past. Close the door. Open a new chapter. Only then can you be free of the pain that haunts you.”

— Emma Scott

109. “Ha dovuto ritrovarsi al buio per scoprire quanto fosse luminosa.”

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110. “Foster Wallace once said: You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”

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111. “Grief is not love. Grief is penance for living after love has died.”

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112. “You have the last piece of his heart, Shiloh... And it’s up to you what you do with it.”

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113. “Realizing Theo wasn’t only there for Jonah during the worst moments of his life. He was there for a lot of other people too. Taking their pain, listening to it, deconstructing it. Turning it around and giving it back to them as a piece of art. Uniquely their own, just as pain is unique to the person who bears.”

— Emma Scott

114. “The urge to protect one’s heart is the strongest urge of all. But it’s also impossible if you want to live a rich, full life.”

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115. “That feeling, I thought. That’s what I love. The first connection. A little uncertain moment that builds it into something strong and real.”

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116. “Aloha means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen, to know the unknowable.”

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117. “The music is the language and your body speaks the words.”

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118. “Four days,” she said, “and then I’ll reevaluate my prospects. And I’m not going to sleep with you, firefighter.” “I don’t expect you to,” I said and couldn’t help but grin, “but let’s leave that door open.” “Closed,” she corrected with a sly smile. “But I’ll leave it unlocked.”

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119. “I know what I want and it’s you. No one else. You’re it for me.”

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120. “Silas Marsh walked straight into that room like the answer to a question I hadn’t known I’d been asking. A strange thought had battered itself around my heart: There he is.”

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121. “Maybe what’s really unnatural is hating someone for a reason that has nothing to do with you. For a difference or preference you don’t share. So what?”

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122. “The ticking clock is supposed to make life more exciting and precious, yet the great majority of humans squander it. If you lived forever, you’d be an even lazier lot than you are now.”

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123. “My mother also said that tears flow when the soul experiences an emotion so potent the body can’t contain it.”

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124. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” I looked at Kacey sitting beside me. She is not merely an ocean. She is an entire universe.”

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125. “I broke open, broke apart, and let all the rage and pain and bitterness go. It was too hard to hold on to, and I couldn’t do it any more. I thought I was holding on to my old life, but there wasn’t anything left of it. Only ugly residue, and that, I finally realized, wasn’t worth holding on to.”

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126. “I promised to protect my heart and instead I ripped it out of my chest and gave it to Silas Marsh.”

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127. “The kind of laughter that keeps going until you’ve forgotten what was so funny in the first place. The kind that cements friendships instantly. A warm balloon expanded in me, lifting me for a few moments out of the shadows. When I caught my breath and came back to earth, I belonged around this fire, with these guys.”

— Emma Scott

128. “I sometimes think what’s considered cheesy is actually just something put in the simplest terms. Don’t stop believing. That’s it. No metaphor. No poetry.”

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129. “Trapped somewhere between hello and goodbye.”

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130. “I let go. The shields guarding my heart lowered. Evan wasn’t taking, he was giving. His kiss gave me those impossible things I’d desperately wanted all my life: tenderness, consideration, reverence. I took everything in his kiss, turned it around and gave it back to him. Willingly. Never once wondering what it would cost me later. No price to be paid, only this moment with this boy. The beauty of timing him and his sweet kiss. I let go.”

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131. “Sawyer nodded, his eyes sweeping over my face. Then he abruptly took my face in his hands and kissed me. Hard. A kiss I felt in every part of me, like a sudden rush of electricity, surging through me and leaving me breathless. He kept his forehead to mine after he broke apart, his own breath coming hard. “A tornado, Darlene,” he whispered. “I’m swept up.” Then he pulled away, shouldered his bag, and got on the bus.”

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132. “She was so much. I could spend a thousand full of lifetimes and never reach the end of her. She is a universe.”

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133. “But I can’t help but feel the universe is a vast place, and the soul of a human being is infinite, even if the body is temporary.”

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134. “Henrietta once told me that it was hard for a person to imagine a better life than the one he had; to really know and feel that it was possible. It was the reason, she said, so many people worked so hard just to stay where they were. They never reached out for what they really wanted because they believed what they wanted was out of reach. But it wasn’t. Like words written on a mirror: Objects may be closer than they appear.”

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135. “Every good and beautiful feeling from our kiss was wrenched out of me.”

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136. “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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137. “Addicts lie, Dar,” Max said gently. “That’s one of our defining characteristics. You’ll always be an addict. You’ll always fight that battle. But fight it with your best, most honest self, if you want a chance to win.”

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138. “But when things get rough, that’s when you draw people to you. You don’t push them away.”

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139. “My nerves didn’t magically turn to steel with that declaration, but bravery, I’d read, wasn’t doing something because you were unafraid. It was being afraid and doing it anyway.”

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140. “I love you. And I love how it feels to love you. I’ve never been more scared by never happier either. Loving you feels better than anything I’ve ever known.”

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141. “We exchanged looks, a commiseration; the girl with a scar and the boy with the freaky rep, and something shifted between us. An unspoken understanding that drew me closer to him without having moved an inch.”

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142. “One who understands what it’s like to struggle so I can appreciate what I have even more.”

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143. “Pain seems inevitable. Or expected. We accept it, I think, as something unavoidable, and happiness is a gift hanging just out of reach; a privilege only a few of us are lucky enough to have. But it’s not. It’s right there, all around us, if we just have the courage to reach our hands into the dark, and take it. Take it. Hold on. And never let go.”

— Emma Scott

144. “People should talk to people like they’re people.”

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145. “Noah’s best meant his heart and soul, blood and guts, sweat and tears.”

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146. “And I knew then, without any dream or hunch to tell me, that Jo was the first woman I’d ever sleep with, and also the last.”

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147. “I hope the love we have outweighs the pain when I’m gone.”

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148. “Are you going to eat or stare at Kacey all night?” No point in denying it. I didn’t even try. “I’m going to stare at her all night.”

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149. “It was easy to be around this girl. And it seemed like she found it easy to be around me, like we’d known each other for years instead of hours.”

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150. “It’s difficult – impossible even – to love another with your whole heart if you can’t find any of that love for yourself.”

— Emma Scott