Emily Giffin Quotes

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decisionwhere you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath.Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriou...

He was a symbol of independence and possibility. The ultimate fantasy.

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The late afternoon sun highlighted all her lines and wrinkles, making her look older than I thought of her as. Then again, she probably was in her early seventies by now, which somehow seemed so much...

I also appreciate Amy’s forty-something perspective that the thirties are a grind for many, and motherhood isn’t the constantly blissful journey everyone thinks it will be when they attend their pink...

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 cheated with Rachel, but I'll never cheat on Rachel.

I don't break up, I trade up

Vatican Palace…because in Venturi’s words, ‘Less is

Look on the bright side. Be grateful for what you have. Count your blessings. Optimism is the foundation of courage.

That although I love Nick, on most days I don't think he lassoed the moon

So much so that it seemed too good to be true. And so it shouldn’t have surprised me to discover that it was too good to be true.

Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.

I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not...

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehowless likely to happen.

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

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season - or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our...

We are one of those couples I used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer that it actually was...

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

How much have i changed. i was a parent-pleaser, a dutiful friend. i made safe, careful choices and hoped that things would fall into place for me. but i have learned that you make your own happiness,...