"Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"I know,” he says. “I can read you like a book."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"If I had to pick one person to be in my corner, it’d be you. Every time."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"I read once that sunflowers always orient themselves to face the sun. That’s what being near Charlie Lastra is like for me. There could be a raging wildfire racing toward me from the west and I’d still be straining eastward toward his warmth."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women’s lives."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Does anyone ever want to finish a good book?"
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"The only two ways I've ever managed to get out of my head are through reading and rigorous exercise."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Some books you don’t read so much as live, and finishing one of those always makes me think of ascending from a scuba dive. Like if I surface too fast I might get the bends."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Life in New York was like being in a giant bookstore: all these trillions of paths and possibilities drawing dreamers into the city's beating heart, saying, I make no promises but I offer many doors."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Even if it hurts, when he shimmers across my mind, it’s like remembering a favorite book. One that left you gutted, sure, but also one that changed you forever"
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"That’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"A reminder that there are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"I used to think it was because people like me don’t get those endings. And asking for it, hoping for it, is a way to lose something you’ve never even had."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"I can see all of the shades of him at once. Quiet, unfocused boy. Precocious, resentful preteen. Broody high schooler desperate to get out. Sharp-edged man trying to fit himself back into a place he never belonged to begin with.
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"So all I can do is cry with her. Somehow, it never occurred to me that this was an option: that two people, in the same hug, could both be allowed to fall apart. That maybe it’s neither of our jobs to keep a steel spine. That we can both survive this pain without the other shouldering it."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"I think,” I whisper, “you’re one of the least disappointing people I’ve ever met."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"As he watches me, he murmurs, “I’ve just always wanted to see a shark attack up close. So much blood."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"I'm not ashamed of my upbringing, but the more you tell a person about yourself, the more power you hand over."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"For anyone who wants it all,” she begins, “may you find something that is more than enough."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"The ones that speak to me are those whose final pages admit there is no going back. That every good thing must end. That every bad thing does too, that everything does."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"This, I think, is what it is to dream, and I finally understand why Mom could never give it up, why my authors can’t give it up, and I’m happy for them, because this wanting, it feels good, like a bruise you need to press on, a reminder that there are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"That’s the thing about women. There’s no good way to be one. Wear your emotions on your sleeve and you’re hysterical. Keep them tucked away where your boyfriend doesn’t have to tend to them and you’re a heartless bitch."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"She wonders whether what comes next could ever live up to the expectations. She doesn’t know. You never can. She turns the page anyway."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Not every decision a woman makes is some grand indictment on other women’s lives."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
="Those were the endings I found solace in. The ones that said, Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. No matter where we go, our love will stretch out to hold us, and that makes me feel like … like everything will be okay."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
"Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read."
— Emily Henry (Book Lovers)
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