Emily Giffin - Heart of the Matter (2010)

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

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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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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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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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Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day at the alter, with equal parts love and hope. And once again, I close my eyes, ready to take a leap of faith, ready for the long, hard road ahead. I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but then again, I never really did.

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

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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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I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.

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The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

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