Emily Giffin citations

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“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”