Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Not all men are like Steve.” “I know,” I said, “but I don’t have the ability to tell the difference.” You’re.”

— Emma Scott

152. “Sometimes the heart hides itself behind the mind.”

— Emma Scott

153. “I hate that people leave when they’re supposed to stay.”

— Emma Scott

154. “Our hearts were thundering together, then slowing together, and it felt as if her warm, soft body were melting into mine. We lay this way a long time, neither of us saying a word, until she finally lifted her head and kissed me one last time, breathing life into me when nothing and no one else had before.”

— Emma Scott

155. “They’d called us the outcast, the vampire, and the criminal. The Lost Boys. But we were bonded by something stronger than blood or friendship or circumstance. We were soul mates. And not lost anymore.”

— Emma Scott

156. “Part of my misguided attempt at personal growth is that I’ve sworn off men for the foreseeable future, and here you are, kicking in the door to my life.” He tongue touched the top of her parted lips and her eyes darkened as they grazed over every inch of me. “The universe Is testing me. Hard.”

— Emma Scott

157. “Acceptance is a kind of love too.”

— Emma Scott

158. “Every minute you’re alive is a second chance to start over.”

— Emma Scott

159. “I love how a few words, carefully chosen, can elicit deep reactions. Or evoke a certain mood, or make you feel something real.”

— Emma Scott

160. “Max led me underground and we took a Muni train –.”

— Emma Scott

161. “Falling for you was the easiest, most effortless thing in the world.”

— Emma Scott

162. “I’d been living half a life, trying to find the sunshine under a sky full of clouds.”

— Emma Scott

163. “What matters is that you know you’re worth it.”

— Emma Scott

164. “Like a book that’s never read, the emotions are lost unless given weight and breath and voice.”

— Emma Scott

165. “The fight you have to fight is for you so that the love you feel for her has a chance.”

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166. “What was the Sistine Chapel to me? Or the Pieta? Or even the Coliseum? Another loss to contend with; another battle to fight against bitterness: I was visiting the world’s oldest cities, and all that made them magnificent was locked away from me but for vestiges of memory.”

— Emma Scott

167. “You, Max. You’re everything good.”

— Emma Scott

168. “My heart had been shattered a long time ago, but now River was seeping in through the cracks.”

— Emma Scott

169. “I was thinking about how we’ve both been hurt by people who were supposed to love us.”

— Emma Scott

170. “You have a thousand hearts’ worth of love to give. A thousand tears may fall when one heart breaks. But never cry for shame.” He kept my chin in his thick hand. “Even love lost was well-spent.”

— Emma Scott

171. “More natural to be happy for you than to hold on to hate. And that’s the long and short of it, isn’t it? 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?”

— Emma Scott

172. “It just happens sometimes, doesn’t it? Like the weight of your personal pain is hiding in your psyche, and something will trigger it to jump with claws out.”

— Emma Scott

173. “Kissing Shiloh was better than I’d imagined. My entire body was awake, wanting her so badly I could hardly keep from tearing at her clothes.”

— Emma Scott

174. “A woman’s heart is not a single room with her feelings and choices stark on white walls, like an exhibit. It’s a deep catacomb we spend our entire life mapping.”

— Emma Scott

175. “Be happy, Max. Grab it with both hands and run like hell. That’s what we’re here for. A smile touched my lips as I turned to look at Silas again. When you jumped off a cliff, the flight was awesome, but a fall could leave you smashed into a thousand pieces. Was it worth it? He opened his blue eyes, a lock of metal blond hair falling over his brow. Silas Marsh is worth it.”

— Emma Scott

176. “Stay with him. And keep holding his hand, Autumn. No matter what happens. Don’t let go of him.”

— Emma Scott

177. “Tell me what you want, I thought, glancing at her from the corner of my eye. Because I want everything.”

— Emma Scott

178. “I don’t want a beautiful wedding, Mom,” I said gently. “I want a beautiful marriage.”

— Emma Scott

179. “She’s bringing me back to life.”

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180. “You’re radiant, Charlotte. They said that about you on our wedding day, and now again that you’re pregnant, but you’ve always been radiant. And the first time I saw that beauty under my hands, I felt how I feel when opening a brand new book. Do you know how that is? Where you only need to read the first few pages and you’re already thinking, ‘This might be a good one. One of the best ones. One of the rare finds that stays with you forever.”

— Emma Scott

181. “I could see a receding shore beneath a sky full of stars. Millions upon millions of stars. Millions upon millions of moments. All of them with her name.”

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182. “My grief wasn’t deep or poetic. It was sinister in its simplicity. I wanted to see again and I never would.”

— Emma Scott

183. “The second I laid eyes on River Whitmore, my pulse kicked up a notch and a little thrill zipped down my spine. Like a tiny reminder of what it meant to be alive.”

— Emma Scott

184. “Sometimes I thought Shiloh letting me into her body was the only salvation I had.”

— Emma Scott

185. “I’ve never wanted anything in my life more than I want this. Right here. Right now. With you.”

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186. “Worse, she was the kind of person who thought she no longer had anything left to learn in dance, or life in general. The kind of person who began almost every sentence with “I know.”

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187. “You’re the light in my darkness, Charlotte.”

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188. “Miller and I ebbed and flowed, but we always came back. Inevitable as the tide and beautiful in the end.”

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189. “I looked at Kacey sitting beside me. She is not merely an ocean. She is an entire universe.”

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190. “So how about no labels? No rules. We’ll just do our best and maybe land somewhere...”

— Emma Scott

191. “I feel connected to something bigger when I sit with the ocean. Like I’m a part of something old and deep.”

— Emma Scott

192. “She was certain there was no more tantalizing phrase in the English language than Chapter One.”

— Emma Scott

193. “Because only when you’re about to lose it all, do you realize how much you have.”

— Emma Scott

194. “He hardly slept much, my Jonah, but he never seemed tired.”

— Emma Scott

195. “I’d been playing a role, lying to myself for so long that I had no idea who I was.”

— Emma Scott

196. “We still have three months to go and you’re going to run out of bloated sea animals to compare yourself to.”

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197. “I couldn’t speak; I only nodded, and it sent a tear sliding down my cheek, to her hand. “See?” she said with a quavering smile. “You feel so much, Sawyer. So much.” She wiped the tear into her palm. “I’m going to keep this,” she said, then turned and walked away.”

— Emma Scott

198. “I told her I loved her and that I missed her, and that I was working to make myself whole so that we could be together, because it was clear to me that I’d have to shatter first, and be put back together.”

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199. “I wanted to grab her, haul her to me and kiss her. Drown in her. Pretend for a second I was in another life.”

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200. “You know what they say, there’s a time and a place for decaf: Never and in the trash.” I.”

— Emma Scott