Emily Giffin Quotes

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The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

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You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

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No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

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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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Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.

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You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition.

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

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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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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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Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

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But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

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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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I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined

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

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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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Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

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But i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

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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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It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

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

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But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

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She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

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Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

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