Top 100 Emily Giffin Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. But I still remained paralyzed by indecision, reluctance, and endless second-guessing ...
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#4. (mother) She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.
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#5. I nod, thinking the whole concept of the path not taken is partly what has always troubled me.
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#6. 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.
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#7. You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.
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#8. Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.
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#13. Reckless abandon and know that there will be someone
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#14. I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will
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#15. ...And look at Ohio State. How do you bring down a coach and penalize a whole program because a couple of kids exchanged some gear for tattoos and a decent man tried to protect them? These are kids! By definition, they make mistakes.
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#16. Right - secrets and lies are really the same thing,
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#17. But that's the thing about the sucker punch; the sucker element hurts worse than the punch.
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#18. After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
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#19. I don't really know why I went to law school.
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#20. 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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#21. Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
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#22. 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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#23. Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past
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#24. You can never be too sure when it comes to things that matter most
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#25. 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.
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#26. Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!
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#27. Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
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#28. 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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#29. You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel.
(Something Borrowed)
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#30. Being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time.
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#31. 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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#32. I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child.
Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more
palpable.
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#33. Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.
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#34. I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.
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#35. Get a load of this one ... I heard that she actually thought paparazzi was the last name of one particular Italian photographer. Apparently she said something like, 'Who is this Paparazzi guy and why didn't they arrest him years ago after he killed Princess Diana?
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#36. Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame
and hate. Focus my energy on something other than the ache in my heart.
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#41. 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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#42. You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end, You'll have no time for grievin'.
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#43. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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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. Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
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#46. 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.
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#47. It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you ...
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#48. 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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#49. There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.
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#50. The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
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#51. Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void ...
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. Love is seldom - almost never - an even proposition. Someone always
loves more.
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#55. 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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#56. People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
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#57. You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
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#58. I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow
less likely to happen.
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#59. 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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#60. I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.
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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
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#67. 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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#68. It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
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#69. Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. There is emotion, and then there is what you do about it.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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.
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#79. Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
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#80. Elated.) And anytime he had to question someone's loyalty.
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#81. 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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#82. I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
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#83. 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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#85. And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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#86. Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don't usually like. Just do it, I always think.
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#87. 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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#88. I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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#89. Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
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#90. His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
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#91. parents might not be keen on the idea of seeing each other, but then essentially
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#92. Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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#93. 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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#94. Everyone has issues. And at the end of the day...you are who you are.
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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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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