Favorite Emily Thorne Quotes
[to Jack] I was out of options, but I knew that you and my father were working together and that, you'd be alright.
Emily: You driven by the guilt you have for what you did to him?
Victoria: Love is complicated.
Emily: I'm not sure it'll be that easy to explain all this to Ben.
Jack: It'll be easier than you think.
Emily: I'm sorry.
Ben: I was relieved, actually. All this time I thought the reason you always acted so weird around me was because of me.
Ben: I do understand how hard it is to break people's trust in order to protect them. Not being able to be yourself, having to push people away, it gets to you after a while. It's lonely. So while I don't know exactly what you've been through, I know it must have been for the right reasons if you were willing to sacrifice so much.
Emily: Thank you for saying that.
Ben: So what do you say that tomorrow, we start over?
Emily: I'd like that very much.
Emily: Jack tends to keep things inside.
Ben: I'm getting worried. What happens when he runs out of space in there?
David: You were such a happy child, Amanda.
Emily: I was. That ended when I was nine.
Emily: If you're gonna keep coming at me, you're going to have to be a hell of a lot smarter.
Margaux: You think you're invincible?
Emily: Not invincible just...better.
Jack: I know about you and Ben.
Emily: And?
Jack: And you have to know that there's someone out there who's a better fit for you.
Jack: I realize my timing's terrible. I get that, but after Aiden..I know what it means to lose someone and I was trying to give you space.
Emily: So you're doing this now because you think I've moved on with Ben? Jack...
Jack: I'm doing this now because I can't watch you be with anyone else because for once we are both in a place to maybe start a relationship and after everything we've been through and at a time in my life when I don't know what the future holds, I have one certainty in my life Emily. One. And that is how I feel about you. It's always been you, from the moment Sammy ran up to you that day.
Emily: I don't know what to say. Things between us, Jack, they're messy.
Jack: Life is messy but...you find a way.
Emily: You have done and sacrificed so much for me. You know how much I care about you. But...
Jack: But what?
Emily: I can't, Jack. I'm sorry.
[to Ben] Look, I'm sure there are a lot of things that you do better than me but this, this one thing, this twisted chess game with real stakes I'm better at than you.
