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81 " 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
82 " 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. "
83 " It hurts to want it all, so many things that can't coexist within the same life. "
― Emily Henry , People We Meet on Vacation
84 " 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. "
85 " 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. "
86 " But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it. "
87 " 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. "
88 " 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. "
89 " Sometimes it feels like I didn't even exist before that. Like you invented me. "
90 " Sometimes life is very hard. Sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the world wants to take. "
91 " If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you'd get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I've eliminated half the Earth's population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don't feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed. "
92 " 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. "
93 " Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes. "
94 " 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
95 " 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. "
96 " 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. "
97 " People were complicated. They weren't math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck. "
98 " 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. "
99 " 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. "
100 " Love is giving the world away, and being loved is having the whole world to give. "
― Emily Henry , The Love That Split the World