Emily Giffin - Quodid

About

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.

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Quotes from Emily Giffin

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

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

love relationship forever

I wanted to be with him forever. I marveled at how such a monumental realization can unfold in an instant and change every single thing in your life.

—Emily Giffin in Something Blue

Although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things—time and an emotional replacement—to fully mend one.

—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With

relationship heart loss emotion

The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

misery

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

—Emily Giffin in Heart of the Matter

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

love

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

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

love

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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

Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

Books

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