Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “But when things get rough, that’s when you draw people to you. You don’t push them away.”

— Emma Scott

152. “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

153. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

156. “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

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

— Emma Scott

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Emma Scott

169. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

172. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

185. “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

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

— Emma Scott

187. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

190. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott