Emily Giffin Quotes
The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
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.
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)
But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.
Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
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.
But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
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.
We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.
you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.
And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.
Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.
Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.
Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out
Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested.
But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.
I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens," I say, realizing that just "seeing what happens" is my version of "going for it.
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.
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.
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.
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.
I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.
I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.
You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.
Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.
