Emily Giffin Short Quotes

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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.

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

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I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

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What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

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

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

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Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...

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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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You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.

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The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

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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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Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

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

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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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It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

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

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Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

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

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And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

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You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

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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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