Emily Giffin Quotes

“I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.”

“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”

“I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will”

“I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.”

“Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.”

“i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.”

“I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.”

“I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.”

“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”

“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”

“There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.”

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”

“I think to myself that when you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance.”

“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

“We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.”

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”

“But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”

“Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.”

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

“You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.”

“It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you…”

“What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.”

“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”

“Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.”

“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”

“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”

“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”

“Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.”

“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”

“Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.”

“You can love someone you mistrust.”

“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.”

“How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.”

“It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.”

“Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.”

“One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.”

“Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?”

“I don't break up, I trade up”

“What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy”

“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”

“There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.”

“But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.”

“Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.”

“My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.”

“… recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void…”

“I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.”

“After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?”

“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”

“When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.”

“His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.”

“No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.”

“The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.”

“[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.”

“You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel."
(Something Borrowed)”

“Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.”

“And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.”

“You’ll never regret being a good friend.”

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”

“He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.”

“But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.”

“Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.”

“The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.”

“There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.”