Emily Giffin - Something Borrowed (2005)

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When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

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

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

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The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.

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