Emily Giffin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Emily Giffin
Emily Giffin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Emily Giffin on Wise Famous Quotes.
But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but at the end, it is the only thing that remains.
You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid when you were working.
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
His favorite quote is from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
So much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out
person for you. That takes some time to figure out
Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!
She says that everyone creates a version of her life that she wishes were true and tries to believe.
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.
Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.
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.
I will find the good in this loss. I will make something
happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.
Cremation was definitely the way to go. It was the way I wanted to go, rather than risk the possibility of going out on a bad-hair day.
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.
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.
Clutter is knowing all of the things that you absorb through your fashion magazines. Clutter is knowing which celebrities broke up with whom and why.
Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.
Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always
seems to happen to the nicest authors.
seems to happen to the nicest authors.
The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.
It's always a good feeling when you can produce just the right one-liner to prove your point so tidily.
I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.
Guys aren't so different from us, I think, which no matter how many times I think it will always seem like a remarkable revelation.
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
I wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.
Of course she knows that I will not join her. I have never danced on a bar. I wouldn't know what to do up there besides fall.
I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from.
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'