Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I wanted to grab her, haul her to me and kiss her. Drown in her. Pretend for a second I was in another life.”

— Emma Scott

152. “I love her,” I said. “I don’t know how it happened, or why, but I do. Something in me connects to something in her. I’ve felt it since the day we met.”

— Emma Scott

153. “I’m grateful, and I think it’s the gratitude that makes me feel connected.”

— Emma Scott

154. “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.”

— Emma Scott

155. “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.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

157. “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.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

159. “To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

161. “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.”

— Emma Scott

162. “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.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

166. “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.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

168. “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.”

— Emma Scott

169. “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.”

— Emma Scott

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

174. “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

175. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

180. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

191. “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

192. “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.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

195. “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.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott