Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what I'll be losing something, someone... — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“...it has crossed my mind that the key to happiness should not be found in a man. That an independent, strong woman… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“In short, I have no real faith in my own happiness. And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people -… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I know what I have to say. I think of Hillary's advice, how she has been telling me to say something all… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share
“Well, anyway… it’s over,” I say, realizing that those two words lump me right in with a hoard of naive women who say it’s… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... — Emily Giffin Copy Share
“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
“I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I’m not trying to script or water down. It’s about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds,… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. — Emily Giffin Copy Share
“never had a good gut feeling. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest… — Emily Giffin Copy Share
