Top 100 Emily Giffin Quotes
#1. Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
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#2. Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.
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#3. Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
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#4. I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
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#5. Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
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#6. Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void ...
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#7. Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That's what being with Dex is like.
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#8. The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.
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#9. You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I just wonder if sheer force of will to forgive can be enough to set things right Because after all, power is one thing. Love is a different creature altogether.
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#12. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.
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#13. That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.
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#14. Everyone has issues. And at the end of the day...you are who you are.
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#15. Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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#17. So much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.
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#18. And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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#20. Of course she knows that I will not join her. I have never danced on a bar. I wouldn't know what to do up there besides fall.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.
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#23. I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.
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#24. But that's the thing about the sucker punch; the sucker element hurts worse than the punch.
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#25. I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most.
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#26. Reckless abandon and know that there will be someone
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#27. But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but at the end, it is the only thing that remains.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
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#30. You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.
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#31. I nod, thinking the whole concept of the path not taken is partly what has always troubled me.
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#32. There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.
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#33. When you wanted to savor something, it would speed by in a blur. When you wanted to get past something, it would drag on forever. Elaine
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#34. But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
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#35. You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end, You'll have no time for grievin'.
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#36. We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.
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#37. I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming?
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. People who like surprises want you to like surprises, too.
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#41. It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!
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#42. It's the feeling of belonging. Right here where I am. In this house. With my parents and Charlotte. The people who know all my stories, from the beginning. The people who know me.
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#43. 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?
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#44. But at the time, I honestly didn't think I was hurting anyone, not even myself. I didn't think much at all, in fact. Yes, I was gorgeous and lucky in love, but I truly believed that I was also a decent person who deserved her good fortune.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. Cremation was definitely the way to go. It was the way I wanted to go, rather than risk the possibility of going out on a bad-hair day.
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#48. It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter.
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#49. Their collective advice: don't settle. Keep looking. Find Mr. Right. That is what they all did. And by God, I think they believe it. Because nobody who marries at the ripe age of twenty-three can be settling. Naturally. That is a phenomenon that only happens to women in their thirties.
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#50. Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.
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#51. But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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#53. If she liked him so darn much, she should have done something about it. Taken some real action.
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#54. I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
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#55. 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.
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#56. let those surface issues go, to value content over form.
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#57. 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
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#58. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season - or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I really try to focus on my books and readers.
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#62. You know in your heart when you're doing the right thing and when you're not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.
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#63. So I guess what I am trying to say is life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season
or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together.
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#64. So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of course included sex. Lots and lots of it.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
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#67. I cheated with Rachel, but I'll never cheat on Rachel.
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#68. In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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#69. 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.
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#70. The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.
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#71. Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
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#72. Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
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#73. As of that moment, we had a secret, and having a secret - even a little one - creates a bond between two people.
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#75. Wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children.
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#76. He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.
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#77. This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.
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#78. I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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#79. 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.
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#80. My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
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#81. His unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference
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#82. 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.
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#83. Did you always know you wanted to practice law?" She considers this - considers the truth - that she had no real passion for the law, but simply wanted to achieve for the sake of achievement ... But of course, she did not divulge any of this, and instead says, "No, not really.
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#84. Life was good then, I though, as I started to cry. Not so much because I missed the good times, although I did. It was more that I knew I was turning into one of those girls who, upon looking at high school photos, feels wistful.
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#85. I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from.
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#86. I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.
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#87. Wasn't there something to be said for working to live, as opposed to living to work?
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#88. grocery lists. That was back when I thought my
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#89. She says that everyone creates a version of her life that she wishes were true and tries to believe.
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#90. Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life ...
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#92. I will find the good in this loss. I will make something
happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
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#93. Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
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#94. When you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
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#95. But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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#98. Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
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#99. After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.
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#100. Ellen laughs, as we've both made fun of those nauseating Facebook posts that use a religious concept to justify their thinly veiled bragging.
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