Favorite Emily Thorne Quotes
Emily: He lied to me.
Nolan: Or he just wanted you to see that there was more to life than revenge. Just like your father.
Victoria: Emily, I had no idea you were invited.
Emily: Well, I am the baby's godmother, so...
Victoria: Isn't being a godparent a religious tradition? Amanda never struck me as a God-fearing woman.
Emily: She doesn't fear much.
All too often, we mask the truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.
Never underestimate your enemy.
Death is a thief. It takes and keeps all that a person is, the person was. And when death takes from us someone as extraordinary as Amanda, it takes with it not just her past, but who she was to us every day. Amanda was special but she never had it easy. A childhood torn from her. A rough adolescence, and a damning identity that was thrust upon her which she bore with dignity until she made herself a new name, Amanda Porter. A name that was her own. Free from the binds of history, looking forward with a man who loved her for all of her strengths and all of her weaknesses. Amanda, all of us here today have embraced you, and we love you. We will protect the husband and child that you leave behind, the sister that you were just getting to know, and we will greet every new day as a gift, approaching it with the same bravery and determination with which you lived your entire life.
Nolan: I don't think my employees have any respect for me.
Emily: Why would they, you're not wearing pants.
The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the past, while the rest of us are doomed to repeat them.
Nolan: This is bigger to me than your revenge against the Graysons. This is my...
Emily: ...family.
Sacrifice by its strictest definition takes something precious for the appeasement of a higher power, an abiding devotion to a cause that cannot be satisfied with a simple promise. Because an oath, no matter how solemn, asks nothing in return while true sacrifice demands unspeakable loss.
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness.
When the system fails us, we must go out and seek our own justice.
You murdered my father. You and I have unfinished business.
