Emily Giffin: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”