Emily Giffin: Quotes about love

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

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

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”

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

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

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.”

“Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.”

“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.”

“We are in love and meant to be together.”

“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.”