Top 46 Best 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. There is emotion, and then there is what you do about it.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.
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#8. Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.
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#9. It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
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#10. You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid when you were working.
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#11. What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
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#12. Love that Ritz!" he said. "A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that?
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#13. Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void ...
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#14. 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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#15. Guys aren't so different from us, I think, which no matter how many times I think it will always seem like a remarkable revelation.
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#16. 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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#17. I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.
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#18. I think of Josie's theory that it's all interrelated, that it all goes back to that night in December, all of our decisions and dreams and mistakes from the past inextricably linked.
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#19. I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow
less likely to happen.
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#20. You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
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#21. People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
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#22. 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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#23. Love is seldom - almost never - an even proposition. Someone always
loves more.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
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#28. I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
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#29. 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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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.
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#33. Everyone has issues. And at the end of the day...you are who you are.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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#36. parents might not be keen on the idea of seeing each other, but then essentially
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#37. His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
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#39. I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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#40. 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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#41. [The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.
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