Emily Cirillo > Emily's Quotes

“Chris takes a swig of Diet Coke. He sometimes worries he is addicted to it. He had once read a headline about Diet Coke that was so worrying he had chosen not to read the article.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“I am not one of nature’s liars. I can keep secrets to myself, right up until the time someone asks me about them.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“I loved those kids like I was born for it, and I would give up all the purest air in the world just for a chance at getting to hold their small, dimpled hands every day.”
― Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

“As though all singularly possessed, we each looked down at our babies' faces, dimpling and delicate and so new, and thought, I wouldn't change a thing. Because I was this child's mother, and all of me — sun and moon, sea and sky, body and bone — would forever stand in the wild truth that I could be mother and child and freed, all at once.”
― Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

“This is what grief was, she understood that now. It was never-ending and you carried it with you. You could not stop it or regret it, you could only keep it close to your heart.”
― Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew

“Had she really thought I would not know him? I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“One time when I was about eight, I woke her up to tell her a monster was living under my bed. She told me to get the .22 and shoot it, then take my behind to sleep.”
― Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching

“With respect, I am nearly 80, so this won’t be my problem, but I do hope they sort it out.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“She's dancing for our community. For our tribe. For all the other tribes battling the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. She's dancing for all the stolen sisters out there.”
― K.A. Cobell, Looking for Smoke

“You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You'd better not be." I opened the passenger door and slid onto the seat, pressing my fingers to the warm vents. "Because I carry pepper spray in this tote. And a gun."
"What the fuck," he cried, putting the car in park.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Now, Julia was the fattest baby you ever saw. [Laughs] It's true! I said to Camila, "Are you feeding her milkshakes?" Biggest cheeks in the world, beer belly. Couldn't have been cuter.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I was going to fucking ace a psych eval.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“Nobody on earth has the constitution to metabolize the sudden and terrific loss of unconditional love.”
― Loretta Rothschild, Finding Grace

“There is no knack to grief. It's like the sky—it hangs over everything. Sometimes the sun peeks through the clouds, other days it rains, and some days it pours.”
― Loretta Rothschild, Finding Grace

“A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“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

“So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”
― 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

“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale