“Something Borrowed” by Emily Giffin - Quodid

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

time memory music smell songs

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 granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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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.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

Only then do I acknowledge that what I am feeling might actually be true happiness. Even joy. Over the past several days, when I have felt the beginnings of this emotion tugging at my heart, it has crossed my mind that the key to happiness should not be found in a man. That an independent, strong woman should feel fulfilled and whole on her own. Those things might be true. And without him in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with him than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That's what being with him is like.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

About Emily Giffin

Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels, including Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter, Where We Belong, and The One and Only.

[from Wikipedia]

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