Emma Scott Quotes & Sayings

I once read that you fell in love like how you fell asleep: slowly at first and then all at once. — Emma Scott

Here's a helpful hint: If you nod, I can't see it. Or head shakes. Or shrugs. Or middle fingers. Or interpretive dances. When I ask you a question, you need to actually speak. — Emma Scott

I love you. It was so simple it almost went straight past me.
I love you. — Emma Scott

A word or a touch that might change everything...
But it can't. I can't take her down that road with me because eventually we'll come to the place where I have to go on, and she can't follow. — Emma Scott

Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death. — Emma Scott

Maybe what I told her was a lie. Maybe I could be what she deserved. Maybe I could make the same teeth-clenching, sweat-pouring effort I'd put into my PT, and channel that into living blind, so that she wouldn't have to constantly be cleaning up after me, or dragging my ass out of the house. My endless black was never going to go away. That was certainty. But kissing Charlotte had been a burst of light streaking across it, like a comet.
Maybe. Maybe is gradations of darkness. The sweetest torture.
Maybe is hope. — Emma Scott

You're like if Brandi Carlile and Adele had a love child," Phoebe said. — Emma Scott

He held on. Weakly, struggling, in agony, he held on, drawing upon the great reservoirs of love and bravery I knew he possessed. He held on for his little girl. For his father. And I liked to think that maybe, if only a little, he held on because I refused to let him go. — Emma Scott

Moment by moment, inhale by exhale, every heartbeat of hers against mine erased our separation. The lust consuming me all night revealed for what it truly was: my need to be with Josephine for the rest of my life. Not only her body but everything that she was: her scribbled words, her lonely heart and her victorious happiness. — Emma Scott

That's my legacy: I loved you and was loved by you. I'm — Emma Scott

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along," she recited. — Emma Scott

I'll love her enough. I'll love her enough she'll never want for it. I'll spend my entire life loving her and making her happy. And she will be happy. — Emma Scott

His hands came up to my head, around my cheek and under my hair.
His handsome face was no longer chiseled in stone, but open and naked and raw. "I love you. I'm in love with you and I will be for the rest of my life. — Emma Scott

You are a universe. — Emma Scott

Whenever the urge to kiss him came over me, I would kiss him. No more living life halfway. We had to go full tilt, just like the card players did. I would hit instead of stay. Always. We — Emma Scott

Love had no end. She was infinite. She was a universe, my universe, and I was hers.
Love had no boundaries, no rules, no favorites.
And no limits. — Emma Scott

I reached out gave her hand a squeeze. "We need to focus on the shopping now, Dar, or else we'll succumb to the Curse of Target." "What's that?" "Where you walk in with a plan to spend twenty bucks, and you walk out having spent a hundred on — Emma Scott

I didn't know it then - I couldn't have - but in that moment, the rest of my life, or what was left of it, began. — Emma Scott

You know what they say, there's a time and a place for decaf: Never and in the trash." I — Emma Scott

As he was marched away, Evan looked back over his shoulder at me. Through his grief-stricken expression, he smiled. So sad, so full of love, and so full of what might have been. Then he was gone — Emma Scott

I felt like a piece of glass, shattered and scattered all over. I didn't know who or what I was anymore, but I glittered prettily in the spotlight. I — Emma Scott

Yeah, whatever," I said finally, the two most unpoetic words in the English language. — Emma Scott

And your characters were my friends and my family when I didn't have any, and when I had nothing and no one to talk to, I had your books, and I just want to thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you so much. --Natalie — Emma Scott

I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business. — Emma Scott

I never told you
How I longed to kiss away your every bruise
until there was no evidence
No ghosts of your own suffering
To put your pieces back together
Seal the cracks
Vanish them like they never were
And never, ever
Leave a scar"

"I never told you
I would take your pain if I could
I would drink it down
And take my comfort
In making you ache a little less
For a little while
Did I?
I'll never know because I never told you that I loved you — Emma Scott

We had to go full tilt, just like the card players did. I would hit instead of stay. Always. — Emma Scott

Lessening the misery of the past will lead to a brighter future. — Emma Scott

I kissed Jonah Fletcher with all of my heart, and with every piece of my soul that would love him forever. — Emma Scott

Love, real love, wasn't empty, grasping hands, or lies that felt like truths. And it wasn't perfect or neat or always easy. It was a rising sun on a new day. It was endless possibility. — Emma Scott

You can prepare all you want for someday. Nothing prepares you for the day of. — Emma Scott

I'm more afraid of not being with you than I am of being with you. — Emma Scott

They say all who wander are not lost. But some of us are. We're really fucking lost, wandering until our feet bleed, and it feels like we'll never find our way home again. — Emma Scott

Like a book that's never read, the emotions are lost unless given weight and breath and voice. — Emma Scott

Love and hope," she said. "That's life to me. Love for all the good that happens to you and the people you care about, and hope that any pain will be bearable or lessen in time. — Emma Scott

That's part of the insidiousness of addiction, I thought. You remember the depth and blackness of the hole you were in and not the strength it took to pull yourself out. "I — Emma Scott

I had a sense of being dropped straight into the middle of a book without having read the early chapters. — Emma Scott

That you can find beauty everywhere, even in the things that scare you the most. — Emma Scott

Because anyone can hit a jackpot, right? You just have to play. And — Emma Scott

You are a universe, Kacey. I kept waiting to find the end of your love and beauty, the end of your generous heart. I never did. I never will. — Emma Scott

He kissed me as if I were something delicate and precious, something he cherished and held with reverence. "My first kiss. This is my first real kiss. — Emma Scott

I love you," I said. "God, I never thought this would happen to me."
"But it did," she whispered. "It happened and all we can do now is take care of each other. Live in the little moments, right? Just like we promised. The little moments. We have so many. Thousands upon thousands. — Emma Scott

Dying, I learned, is a not a team sport. It's a solitary endeavor. Everyone I loved was standing on dry land, while I was alone on a boat as it slowly pulled away from the shore, and there's nothing anyone could do about it but watch it happen. — Emma Scott

I felt him in every pore, every breath and beat of our hearts. I'd never experienced anything like this in my life. He was a universe. My love for him was just as boundless. — Emma Scott

Not all men are like Steve." "I know," I said, "but I don't have the ability to tell the difference." You're — Emma Scott

I wanted what they had. I wanted inside jokes and casual touches that said 'I'm here, with you.' I wanted someone who knew me so well, he could finish my sentences. Or knew when to say nothing at all. I — Emma Scott

I would love you forever, Kacey, if I only had the chance. — Emma Scott

firmly believe in the concept of Happily Ever After. For everyone. No matter how or who or when they fell in love. Because that love existed, they felt it, and that is worth everything. Love — Emma Scott

I don't know how to talk to people anymore." Her voice sounded muffled, as if she were wiping her nose. "Yeah, I noticed. You're like a walking Internet comment, just spewing whatever pops off the top of your head. You can't do that with people in real life. — Emma Scott

I moved in close, put my head on Theo's chest, pulled our clasped hands in to rest on his heart. "That's better," I said, tucking my head under his chin where it fit perfectly. "Yeah," he said softly. "It is. — Emma Scott

He told me to love again, and I do. So much."
"He told me to love you. But I already did. So much. — Emma Scott

You're radiant, Charlotte. They said that about you on our wedding day, and now again that you're pregnant, but you've always been radiant. And the first time I saw that beauty under my hands, I felt how I feel when opening a brand new book. Do you know how that is? Where you only need to read the first few pages and you're already thinking, 'This might be a good one. One of the best ones. One of the rare finds that stays with you forever — Emma Scott

We might not have months or years, but we have moments. Thousands upon thousands of them. Let's take each moment, seize it and wring it dry. — Emma Scott

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Emma Scott

My world had been fading to gray until she burst in like a bombshell of color and light... — Emma Scott

For one short second, his hand rested on my shoulder. I wanted to take it and hold on all night, but the dark kept me limp and motionless. Still, I knew Theo was there. I wasn't alone anymore. And that was enough. That was everything. — Emma Scott

Let's do something really fucking crazy and trust each other. — Emma Scott

A semicolon is where a writer can choose to end the sentence," she said, tucking a lock of brown hair behind her ear. "But they don't. The story goes on. It's a symbol of hope. To keep going." She smiled tremulously. "Sometimes I need that reminder. — Emma Scott

Wait here." I ran back up to my room to grab his blue-and-black plaid flannel shirt, still in my possession. Back on the porch, I handed it over.

"My shirt. I forgot you had it."

"It's 'my' shirt. You need to go home tonight and sleep in it. I made the mistake of washing it and now it doesn't smell like you anymore."

He turned the shirt over and over in his hand, laughing and shaking his head.

"And I want it back first thing in the morning. You read me? — Emma Scott

It hurts, right? It's messy and complicated and it's like a tattoo that never ends. A million needles inking something on your heart that isn't even beautiful."
"The feeling you have in that moment right as you wake up, before your brain mucks it all up with thoughts and words? That very first feeling is where the truth lives."
"Because love always wins. Always. — Emma Scott