Quotes by Emily Giffin

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 review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me. And then dumped me. I played the passive role. Waiting for Hunter and then settling for Joey. Waiting to feel more for Nate. Then waiting to feel less. Waiting for Alec to go away and leave me in peace. And now Dex. My number four. And I am still waiting. For all of this to blow over. For his September wedding. For someone who gives me that tingly feeling as I watch him sleeping in...

Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!

You cant quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that has really has more to do with personality- the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom- almost never -even proposition. Someone always loves more.

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

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

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

I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.

desperately wanting to define whats in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move

Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much theyre missed in your life.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own. -- Leo

No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

“But I have learned that you cant just create your own timetable and will it to come true.”

“But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.”

“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

“I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, Ill be losing something, someone. But maybe thats 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.”