Happy Place Quotes

“We are young, Harry. We’ll always be young. It’s a state of mind.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“We are young, Harry. We’ll always be young. It’s a state of mind.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Whenever I get anxious, I clean, and it relaxes me.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Before I even see him, my heart starts singing its favorite song. You, you, you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“It’s by this married couple who usually publish separately. One of them writes literary doorstop novels and the other writes romance.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You fit with me, and I was there."
"I know," he says. "I think that's really why I went. To find you."
"That's a very expensive dating app," I say.
"You get what you pay for," he replies.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“He walked around the kitchen to hug each of them in turn, then looked at me, his eyes sparkling and clear, no fog. Like his first instinct when he felt joy was to check whether it had hit me too, to share it.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“It always surprised me, how quickly the ratio of his face could change. In a second, he can go from that broody, tender look to almost boyish delight. Every time his expression changed, I used to think the new one was my favorite. Until it changed again and I had to accept that whichever Wyn was directly in front of me, that was the one I loved most.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“You’re a mystery to me, Harriet Kilpatrick.”

My smile falters. “I’m a mystery to me too,” I say. “I didn’t realize how little I understood myself until I met Cleo and Sabrina. They’re both so sure of how they feel about things.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I watched him fade from me, bit by bit, day by day, a mirage receding into nothingness.
But the way he's looking at me threatens to obliterate logic, to erase history. If he's a black hole, I've reached his event horizon.
My chest aches, but I don't want it to stop. I want to lean into the feeling, this wholeness. My heart and body and mind are all finally in the same time and place. Here, with him.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“A cottage on the rocky shoreline, with knotty pine floorboards and windows that are nearly always open. The smell of evergreens and brine wafting in on the breeze, and white linen drapes lifting in a lazy dance. The burble of a coffee maker, and that first deep pull of cold ocean air as we step out onto the flagstone patio, steaming mugs in hand.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Chain restaurants are the Murder She Wrote reruns of the food industry.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“It’s this feeling like the universe is compacting around me, while something in my rib cage is expanding. I’m the culmination of their lost dreams, their missed other lives, and at the same time, they’re proud of me.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I thought being family just meant you have limitless time to hold grudges.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“like herding cats on acid. Like the cats are on acid, and the cat shepherd is also on acid.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“In every universe, it´s you for me. Even if it´s not me for you,”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“And for the second time, I tuck myself into their tiny second-floor bathroom with the water running and sob into my knuckles, because I know I can’t take him back to San Francisco. Know I can’t bear to be the person who takes him away from where he belongs.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Sabrina sets her mug down. “Is the point that all parents invariably fuck up their children for life, and there’s no avoiding it, so we should really stop procreating rather than continuing to make one another miserable?”

Cleo rolls her eyes. “Neither the point nor accurate.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Some things never change, and the best thing is to stop hoping they will.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“The feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I look away. Now my heart feels like one giant blister, too tender, too delicate. If only he’d felt that way sooner. If only I had any clue what went wrong, how I lost him. If only I believed there were some way to fix it. But he’s not the only one who’s done things he can’t take back. And revisiting what’s happened will only make the pain worse.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you,”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“And even that pain is a kind of pleasure, to feel so loved, to love so deeply.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I was more scared of marrying someone who couldn’t bring himself to leave me or to keep loving me.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“He was right about one thing, though. He can’t tell me what I want.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Are you slut-shaming me, Harriet?” “Not at all,” I say. “I love sluts! Some of my best friends are sluts. I’ve dabbled in sluttery myself.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Maybe I need to know that he remembers, that he hasn’t totally forgotten what it felt like to love me,”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Do you remember what you told me,” I say, “about your brain?” His hand pauses. “You said it felt like a Ferris wheel,” I say. “Like all your thoughts were constantly circling, and you’d reach out for one, but it was hard to stay on it for too long because they kept spinning.” The lines of his face soften. His fingers curl, the backs of his nails pressing into my skin. “Except with you. You’re like gravity.” I couldn’t have pulled myself away from him then if he’d burst into flames. “Everything keeps spinning,” he says in a low, hoarse voice. “But my mind’s always got one hand on you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“So many of his details are slightly different, but my heart still sees him and whispers into my veins, You.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“And then Eloise would storm out, and they'd go to separate rooms, and I would be so sure that was it. That Eloise wouldn't come back. Or my parents would split up. I was always waiting for something terrible to happen.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place