Emily Henry Quotes

Emily Henry

Emily Henry is a New York Times bestselling American author who is best known for her romance novels Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. (Emily Henry Quotes)

“All day long, I hear myself saying this same phrase, like I’m desperate to get it out of my body even as I feel incapable: I am having a hard time”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“All there really is to do in New Orleans, it seems, is walk, eat, drink, look, and listen.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Am I hallucinating?” Lucille asked. “Are we even on earth or, like, on Tatooine? Is this . . . suburban Tatooine?” “No,” Winona said in a hushed voice. “It’s a truck stop.”
Emily Henry
Hello Girls

“And that’s how it is in real life too. You can love someone and still know the future you’d have with them wouldn’t work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Apparently the completion of long-term goals often leads to depression. It’s the journey, not the destination.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Because I know you, he says tenderly, “and I remember what you sound like when you like something.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Breakups suck. Breakups between cohabitating partners in overpriced cities suck a little extra.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can’t have it.
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Contentment is a lie invented by capitalism.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Even if the point of life isn’t just being happy, right now, I am. Down to the bones.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Evil’s something you can decide to do every day, and it gets easier every time. But the more good you bring into the world, maybe the more the rest of the world would look like this. Like paradise.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“For me, traveling is about wandering, meeting people you don’t expect, doing things you’ve never done.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“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.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“Half the people on Instagram have never lived in a world where every picture wasn’t edited.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“His mouth slides down my neck, the side of his face settling over my heartbeat. “I hear you,” he whispers, kissing my collarbone. “I can hear all of you, rushing around in there. A million Jacks and Juniors and Junes, a city of them.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“How do I make myself cry?” “I don’t know!” Lucille said. “How does Jennifer Lawrence do it?” “Probably just thinks about Hollywood pay discrepancies?”
Emily Henry
Hello Girls

“How many billions of things had to happen just right to give me this ordinary life.”
Emily Henry
When the Sky Fell on Splendor

“I didn’t know regular life could feel like this, like a vacation you don’t have to go home from.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I don’t know how to love someone as much as I love you. It’s terrifying. And I get these bursts of thinking I can handle it and then I think about what it will do to me if I lose you, and I panic and pull away.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I don’t think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I feel insufficient as an adult. I look around at the office and see everyone typing, taking calls, making bookings, editing documents, and I know they’re all dealing with at least as much as I am, which only makes me feel worse about how hard everything feels to me.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I hate exercise; I love the feeling of having exercised.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I love him so much. I love him more than I did yesterday, and I already know tomorrow I’ll love him even more, because every piece of him he gives me is another to fall in love with.” (Emily Henry Quotes)
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I love my kids, but sometimes I just want to sit down to dinner and talk about something other than Peppa Pig.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I promise you. I promise you the stars. I promise you the lake and falls, coywolves and robins. I promise earth and heaven: I will love you long after the last human has taken his last breath. When the stars burn out and the oceans freeze over and the whole world is ash and dust and ice, our names will still be carved into this tree of life, side by side, and I’ll still be loving you.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I’m feeling, I want you next to me. You’re home to me, Alex. And I think I’m that for you too.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I think life is about learning to dance even when you’re sitting still”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“I think once you’ve felt grief, it’s hard not to catch someone else’s.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“I thought the whole thing about millennials was that we don’t get what we want. The houses, the jobs, the financial freedom. We just go to school forever, then bartend ’til we die.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I was just a moment, and you gave me a million Junes. I was just a moment, and you made me forever.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“I wish I could bottle this moment and wear it as a perfume. It would always be with me. Everywhere I went, he’d be there too, and so I’d always feel like myself.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I would rather have one tiny sliver of him forever than have all of him for just a moment and know I’d have to relinquish all of it when we were through.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m crying because I’m relieved. Because I will never again feel as alone as I did during those long nights as a kid. As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m saying,” Rachel replies, “that purpose matters more than contentment.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“If I can’t love you at Times Square then I don’t deserve you at a used bookstore.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I’m happy, so happy to be a tiny fleck of a thing alongside you. We may just be moments, June, but to love a handful of people very well, that’s a good life. I was just a blip, a spark, the blink of God’s eyes. Because of you, it was more than enough. It was everything.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“I’m on vacation. Vacations always end. It’s the very fact that it’s finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn’t be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Isn’t that ridiculous? My life turned out how I hoped it would, and now I just miss wanting something.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“It hurts to want it all, so many things that can’t coexist within the same life.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s not your job to make me happy, okay? You can’t make anyone happy. I’m happy just because you exist, and that’s as much of my happiness as you have control over.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s possible that all those little moments that meant so much to me never meant quite the same thing to him. It’s possible that he didn’t reach out to me for two full years because, when we stopped speaking, he didn’t lose something precious the way that I did.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s the very fact that it’s finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn’t be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spent there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s more like sculpting. Gentle pressure on all sides that briefly compresses us into one living, breathing thing with twice as many hearts as we should have.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“I’ve always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that’s it. There’s something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel like I’m okay.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Letting go is not forgetting. It’s opening your eyes to the good that grew from the bad, the life that blooms from decay.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”

“Lucille had never seen mountains before, and it was increasingly hard for her not to gape over the steering wheel. There was a weird poetry to it, how the usual nail salons and Dress Barns and Save-A-Lots still existed despite the evidence of actual smashed tectonic plates behind them. There was a bite in the air she didn’t associate with summer; summer meant mosquitos by the lake and trying to breathe through the pea-soup humidity. Not purple mountain majesty with a side of CHECK CASHING DELUX.”
Emily Henry
Hello Girls

“Makes me so happy every time you find out how small the world is, you know? Like, we were in that place at the same time and now here we are. At different points in our lives but still connected. Like quantum entanglement or some shit.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Maybe for some people, falling in love is an explosion, fireworks against a black sky and tremors rumbling through the earth. One blazing moment. For me, it’s been happening for months, as quietly as a seed sprouting. Love sneaked through me, spreading roots around my heart, until, in the blink of an eye, the green of it broke the dirt: hidden one moment, there the next.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“My life turned out how I hoped it would, and now I just miss wanting something.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Nothing sounds better tonight than living my small life well.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“On vacation, you can be anyone you want. Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Once your best friend is someone else’s boyfriend, the boundaries between what you can and can’t say get a whole lot firmer.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“People in New York are friendlier than the rest of the world warned me they would be.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“People want to see idyllic vacations in vacation magazines. They buy them to daydream, not to plan.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Poppy there may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but that day is not today.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“She nods emphatically. “I read this article about it. Apparently the completion of long-term goals often leads to depression. It’s the journey, not the destination, babe, and whatever the f*ck else those throw pillows say.” (Emily Henry Quotes)
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Somehow, my voice comes steady and light, and not like someone reached into my rib cage and held my heart inside his hand just long enough to run a thumb across a secret wound.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Sometimes a change of scenery is all that’s needed to get a little perspective.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Sometimes I think that’s why we’re so drawn to each other. Because he’s used to being the steadfast big brother and I’m used to being the annoying little sister. It’s a dynamic we understand: I lovingly tease him; he makes the entire world feel safer for me.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Sometimes, when you lose your happiness, it’s best to look for it the same way you’d look for anything else. By retracing your steps. So, all you have to do is think back and ask yourself, when was the last time you were truly happy?”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Stop trying to force this friendship back to what it used to be—it’s not going to happen! We’re different now, and you have to stop pretending we aren’t!”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“The one thing I know is, wherever you are, that’s where I belong. I’ll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I’m feeling, I want you next to me. You’re home to me.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“The thought is terrifying, probably not even true. A dangerous idea to entertain. I release my hold on it, watch it slip away. But there are points in the center of my palms that burn, scorched, proof I once held it there.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“The whole thing about millennials was that we don’t get what we want. The houses, the jobs, the financial freedom. We just go to school forever, then bartend ’til we die.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“There are always at least two versions of everything, June. I’ve forgotten my own because I love your daddy’s so much.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“There are no hard edges to grab hold of, no distinct markers on this moment’s beginning or end, nothing to separate it from the millions just like it. But this, this is the first moment I think it. I am in love with you.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“There are some things that can’t be unsaid, just like there are things that couldn’t be undone.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“There aren’t words vast or specific enough to capture the ecstasy and the ache and love and fear I feel just looking at him now.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“There may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but that day is not today.”

“There were still pieces of us we so badly wished each other could see and yet couldn’t make ourselves ask for, and there was anger and resentment and it still all hurt, but right now, we were here, and if we stayed long enough, things might start to heal, even a little bit.”
Emily Henry
When the Sky Fell on Splendor

“There’s nothing so off-putting to some people as someone who seems not to care whether anyone else approves of them.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“There’s that Poppy, who’s experiencing it all and having the most magical night of her life. And then there’s the one who’s already missing it, who’s watching this all happen from some point in the distance, knowing I can never go back and do it all over again.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“They met far away from here, but she was a little piece of home to him, so he swept her up and brought her back with him, because he wanted all the home he could have in one place.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“This is how grief works. It watches; it waits; it hollows you out, again and again.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“This is what I want for the rest of my life. To see new places. To meet new people. To try new things. I don’t feel lost or out of place here.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“This is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“To be on trend is to be already late to that trend.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“To love a handful of people very well, that’s a good life.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“Tomorrow we will love each other a little more, and the next day, and the next day.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“We both know that pain comes for us all. It’s almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“When you’ve been lost as I have,” he once said, “you get good at finding your way home.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“Why did people lie? With their words, with their voices, with their bodies, with their beautiful houses and beautiful clothes and sometimes even their faces? Why couldn’t everyone just be what they were?” (Emily Henry Quotes)
Emily Henry
Hello Girls

“Working towards your goals can be very lonely, and professional burnout is always a challenge.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“Write the things you have the most to say about and the things you’re afraid of messing up.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“You absolutely amaze me, Winona Olsen,” Lucille said. “You terrify me, but you amaze me too.”
Emily Henry
Hello Girls

“You all think you want a sexy, independent hip-hop dancer, but when that person appears in front of you, when she’s a real person, she’s too much and you’re not interested and you’ll go for the cute kindergarten teacher in the turtleneck every time.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“You can love someone and still know the future you’d have with them wouldn’t work for you, or for them, or maybe even for both of you.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“You can’t outrun yourself. Not your history, not your fears, not the parts of yourself you’re worried are wrong.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“You don’t have to be afraid to walk away because… there’s no expiration date on soul-love.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“You know, I think my favorite parts of life are the things I didn’t know I wanted.”
Emily Henry
A Million Junes

“You know, sometimes with clothes, it’s not a matter of whether something can be worn but whether it should be worn.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation

“You looked like My Little Ponies auditioning at a glue factory.”
Emily Henry
Hello Girls

“You lost someone you loved, and you kept getting out of bed. You were there for the people in your life, and you love them, and they love you back. You’ve got all of that in your life still. None of it went away. It didn’t end just because you lost one person.”
Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation