Anjali James

“Until you got here,” he rasps, “ all this place had ever been was a reminder of all the ways I was a disappointment, and now you’re here and - I don’t know. I feel like I’m okay. So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“This, I think, is what it is to dream, and I finally understand why Mom could never give it up, why my authors can’t give it up, and I’m happy for them, because this wanting, it feels good, like a bruise you need to press on, a reminder that there are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Suddenly, though, I can also imagine it. I can almost miss it, this thing I never had.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“I think,” I whisper, “you’re one of the least disappointing people I’ve ever met.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers