198 Quotes by Emily Henry

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.

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.

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

It’s hard to feel like you belong when you don’t know who you are.

I know feeling small gets to some people, he had once told me, but I kine of like it takes the pressure off when you’re just one life of six billion at any given moment. And when you’re going through something hard – at the time, Mom was doing chemo – it’s nice to know you’re not even close to the only one.

I think once you’ve felt grief, it’s hard not to catch someone else’s.

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.

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

That was what I’d always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn’t move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.