Top 50 Emily Giffin Love Quotes
#1. I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.
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#2. I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.
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#3. 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
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#4. True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
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#6. That although I love Nick, on most days I don't think he lassoed the moon
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.
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#10. 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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#12. Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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#18. 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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#19. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
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#20. It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always
seems to happen to the nicest authors.
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#21. I don't love him, period. I didn't love him before this. I cared about him. And I wanted to love him. Maybe I could have grown to love him. But those feelings just weren't there. I liked the idea of him. It was exciting. He was exciting. Too exciting.
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#22. Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.
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#24. 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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#25. But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Love is seldom - almost never - an even proposition. Someone always
loves more.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. And I love the beret. Just glad that it wasn't raspberry." "Or from a secondhand store," he deadpanned. "Although I would love to see you in it. And if it was warm ...
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#36. 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.
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#37. Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
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#38. After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
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#39. Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
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#40. 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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#41. I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
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#42. There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.
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#43. It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you ...
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#44. But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship
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#45. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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#46. Did I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with?
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#47. We have no relationship without honesty. - by Claude
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#48. And more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?
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#49. Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
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#50. 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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