Emily Giffin Quotes

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.

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

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

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

We are in love and meant to be together.

In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

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

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

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

You can love someone you mistrust.

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've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

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.

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

I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.

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

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

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.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

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.

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.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.

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

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere

Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.