Emily Giffin Quotes

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

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  People, Action, Reactions

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.278, Macmillan

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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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  Love And Friendship, Who We Are, Ifs

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.348, Macmillan

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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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  Commitment, Love Is, Ties

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.351, Macmillan

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• There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

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  Two, Kind, Appetite

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

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• You’ll never regret being a good friend.

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  Regret, Good Friend, Never Regret

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.159, Macmillan

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

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  Revenge, Choices, Just Be Happy

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

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  Perfect, Borrowed

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• A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

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  Family, Daughter, Son

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.96, Macmillan

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• I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

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  Thinking, Important, Trying

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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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  Relationship, Thinking, Individual Happiness

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.365, Macmillan

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

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  Disappointment, Void, Recognizing

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

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  Heart, Important, Want

  Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 16, 2012.

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• True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

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  Uplifting, True Love, Love Is

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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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  Relationship, Break Up, Two

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.364, Macmillan

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• Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

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  Love, Passion, Years

  "Thoughtful Emily Giffin Quotes You'll Want to Bookmark and Read Again and Again". www.popsugar.com. July 04, 2016.

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• This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

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  Glasses, Half, Empty

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

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• Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

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  Letting Go, Past, Love Relationship

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.181, St. Martin's Press

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• Anything worthwhile is tough.

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  Tough, Worthwhile

  Emily Giffin (2012). “Where We Belong: A Novel”, p.291, Macmillan

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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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  Trying, Want

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.238, Macmillan

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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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  Mother, Hate, Opposites

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.268, Macmillan

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• Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

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  Party, Believe, Cheater

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

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  Children, Weekend, Funny Things

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

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  Love Is, Propositions

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

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  Endless Time, Endless

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.307, Macmillan

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• His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

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  Loyalty, Heart, Eye

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