Emily Henry Quotes

#1. Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest.
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'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.

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#2. I hear him in the creak and groan of the floorboards as the summer nights stretch them, can visualize him sitting at the foot of my bed, saying, Other houses have support beams and foundations. Ours has bones and a heartbeat. I

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#3. It's true that nothing has the potential to hurt so much as loving someone, but nothing heals like it either.

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#4. Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give.

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#5. The world is going to keep right on being beautiful and terrible all at once

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#6. For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

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#7. I don't love Beau yet, I don't think. But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other's.

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#8. Judging a story by the ending alone, or life by its death alone, is as pointless as judging a long hike through the mountains by the fact that when you get back to where you parked your car, there's a pit toilet full of you know what and beer cans.

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#9. Sometimes the most beautiful moments in our lives are things that hurt badly at the time. We only see them for what they really were when we stand at the very end and look back.

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#10. There's nothing scarier than hearing someone you love cry, except imagining a world where that sound stops. Suddenly I can't breathe. Can't be here. There's nothing scarier than loving someone.

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#11. (W)rite the things you have the most to say about and the things you're afraid of messing up.

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#12. Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.

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#13. Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

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#14. God is a thing I know when I see, and I see It all over, in Megan, in the night sky and the morning sun, and especially in Grandmother.

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#15. Beau, what is it you want?"
"A porch," he says softly. He says it like it's my name, and right then, I think, what both of us want more than anything is something we can never have. "All I really want is to build a house with a nice, big porch that gets used every day.

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#16. He wants to have your glorious, blue-eyed babies," I whisper.
"So as long as no one tells him he doesn't have a uterus, I have a chance?" she murmurs back.

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#17. No story is truer than any other story that has the truth in its heart

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#18. Funny thing about belonging to two worlds: Sometimes you feel like you belong in zero.

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#19. Personal style is my mom, after some red wine, walking like she intends to restore order and beauty to the world with her posture alone.

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#20. There are certain people you can just be silent with - like Dad, and Megan - and it's every bit as good as a long heart-to-heart.

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#21. Recognizing someone as a part of you before they've even become that person in your life, and knowing, without a doubt, that neither of you will ever be who are you in this exact moment ever again and believing, against all odds, you will continue to belong to one another despite that.

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#22. Growing up is going to hurt. Only you can decide if the pain is worth the love.

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#23. Letting go is not forgetting. It's opening your eyes to the good that grew from the bad, the life that blooms from decay.

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#24. There is always more to see and feel

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#25. I wonder what that must feel like, to know that for sure. This is home.

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#26. When I was your age, I knew nothing. Nothing about myself, nothing about the universe or about heartbreak. I remember being terrified to grow up, afraid of losing my friends, sure I'd lose my mind. Life felt like a blender that wanted to eat me.

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#27. You're a beautiful and wonderful and sensual and strong golden fawn, she says, followed by That was supposed to say "my best friend," but my phone...

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#28. So tell me, okay? Tell me what you need, and tell me every single time you need it, and I'll be there.

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#29. Dance used to do that for me too: a place where there was nothing to do but be me and let everything else fall away. For a lot of the girls on the team, it was all about the performance, but for me, I think it was always about communication.

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#30. Sometimes you change your mind about a person. Or your feelings for them change, or they change, or, I don't know, you just want to make a different decision. And that's always okay. You don't owe anyone anything.

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#31. Thresholds are more than randomly chosen divisions between rooms. They're places where change -- transformation -- happens.

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#32. And then one day, our parents look at us and notice we're whole people. We're not a part of them anymore, even if they're a part of us. And for the ones who never really wanted to be parents anyway, that's probably a relief.

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#33. And because she jumped, our world began

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#34. ...I'd realized how much I'd always love someone at the same moment I realized that person and I might never fit together again.

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#35. The way to make the best decisions is to listen to all the stories and to know them by heart and to feel them in your bones

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#36. I sometimes think I wouldn't feel so lost if she didn't try so hard to make me feel okay about looking for myself

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#37. She may be a bitch, but she's a genuine bitch with a heart

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#38. And that's when I'm lost, and in my place, the world gets born.

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#39. You don't have to be afraid to walk away because... there's no expiration date on soul-love.

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#40. The song is sad, heartbreaking even, and I'm overcome with frustration that I don't have a better word to describe it. It occurs to me then that Grandmother would. She'd have a whole story that would sound exactly like this song.

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#41. Being with him feels like a better version of being alone.

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#42. Being around people is exhausting. Being around Beau is like a really good version of being alone, as easy but more fun.

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#43. Sometimes the whole world feels like that horse to me, I say aloud. Does that make sense? Like everyone's just groaning & screaming through the pain, hoping something better comes out.

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#44. Miss you so much it hurts.

Seconds later, she texts back, The feeling is mushrooms,followed by a second text reading, Yes, autocorrect, I meant to say mushrooms, not mutual. Good catch.

Life without you does feel a little bit like fungus, I reply. But definitely less tasty.

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#45. Why did they have to sacrifice anything?"
"It was a symbol," Grandmother explains. "Of an innocent dying on behalf of someone else - the greatest act of love. A choice to die so someone else doesn't have to.

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#46. If you want the good, you can't give up.

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#47. I told you so you'd see how this whole world was made for you, how it warms when you smile and aches when you hurt. I told you so you could stop being afraid.

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#48. I twist my fingers through his hair, press my lips to his cheek. The words tangle in my throat, being born and dying a thousand times. I love you.

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#49. No matter how hard it feels, you don't need to be afraid to move on, and you don't need to be afraid to stay either. There's always more to see and feel.

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