Emily Giffin Quotes

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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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Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

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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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He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

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

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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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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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When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.

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

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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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And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

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Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

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Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

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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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You'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.

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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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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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I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

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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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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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The feeling I have reminds me of New Year's Eve, when the countdown is coming and I'm not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn't turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn't mean quite so much, if I weren't forced to analyze where I've been and where I'm going.

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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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There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

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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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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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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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I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

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It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.

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

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