Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“You're so beautiful, January," he whispered, kissing me more tenderly. "You're so fucking beautiful, you're like the sun.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Gus touched the side of my face. “I don’t need snowflakes.” He kissed me. “As long as I have January.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Again and again he told me I wasn't myself. But he was wrong. I was the same me I'd always been. I'd just stopped trying to glow in the dark for him, or anyone else.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Bad things don't dig down through your life until the pit's so deep that nothing good will ever be big enough to make you happy again. No matter how much shit, there will always be wildflowers.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Falling's the part that takes your breath away. It's the part when you can't believe the person standing in front of you both exists and happened to wander into your path. It's supposed to make you feel lucky to be alive, exactly when and where you are.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“People were complicated. They weren't math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Happy. Not giddy or overjoyed, but that low, steady level of happiness that, in the best periods of life, rides underneath everything else, a buffer between you and the world you are walking over.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“You know that feeling, when you're watching someone sleep and you feel overwhelmed with joy that they exist?”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Here's the thing about writing Happily Ever Afters: it helps if you believe in them.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Hate, I found out on the ride home, was a less embarrassing way to say fear.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I thought - think it's brave to believe in love. I mean, the lasting kind. To try for that, even knowing it can hurt you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“You never get the paper umbrellas you were promised in this world.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“The way your writing always makes the world seem brighter, and the people in it a little braver.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I don’t think I’ve ever loved the world like you do. I remember being afraid of it. And then angry with it.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I want to be the one who gives you what you deserve, and I want to sleep next to you every night and to be the one you complain about book stuff to, and I don’t think I ever could deserve any of that, and I know this thing between us isn’t a sure thing, but that’s what I want to aim for with you. Because I know no matter how long I get to love you, it will be worth whatever comes after.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“When I think about you, January, and I think about doing laundry with you and trying terrible green juice cleanses and going to antiques malls with you, I only feel happy. The world looks different than I ever thought it could be, and I don’t want to look for what’s broken or what could go wrong. I don’t want to brace myself for the worst and miss out on being with you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Love, after all, was often made not of shiny things but practical ones. Ones that grew old and rusted only to be repaired and polished. Things that got lost and had to be replaced on a regular basis.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Happy for now.” I tasted the words, rolled them over the back of my tongue like wine. The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living. And I was. Happy for now.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“And other times, we’d sit in silence, not quite together but definitely not alone.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Every moment of every day, I was tripping backward while the rest of the world marched forward.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I think, even if things don't stay like this, I will always carry this moment in me.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“When she connected with someone, she opened up like a rose to expose the most tender, pure, selfless, and loyal heart I'd ever known.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“For January, I don't care how the story ends as long as I spend it with you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost