Top 200 Emma Scott Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “He hardly slept much, my Jonah, but he never seemed tired.”

— Emma Scott

152. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

155. “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.”

— Emma Scott

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

162. “And her smile was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Emma Scott

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Emma Scott

170. “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

171. “I think there comes a point where we just have to let go. Move on and try to learn from our mistakes and not keep punishing ourselves for them.”

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

180. “Sometimes grief isn’t about the past, but the future. What might’ve been.”

— Emma Scott

181. “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

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

— Emma Scott

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

192. “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

193. “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

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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

— Emma Scott

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.”

— Emma Scott

199. “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

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

— Emma Scott