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.

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 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 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

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

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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

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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When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.

—Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

—Theodore Dreiser

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You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war."
"Yes, sir."
"You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second."
"I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed."
"… Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you.… You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive!

—Joseph Heller

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

—Edith Wharton

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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

—Edith Wharton

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