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

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.

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I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.

—Emily Giffin in Something Blue

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

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all—she has never disagreed with something so much.

—Emily Giffin in Heart of the Matter

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all—she has never disagreed with something so much.

—Emily Giffin in Heart of the Matter

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

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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It was sad that any devotion or encouragement I got from someone made me emotional. But it was rare.

—Abbi Glines in Until The End

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."… I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

—David Rockefeller

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When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.

—Jim Geoghan in Light Sensitive

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Don't apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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