What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy — 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
A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Nothing about my life is lucky - it's all about hard work, it is all an uphill struggle.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track… — 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
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life:… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I have a fleeting fantasy of telling her that procreation isn't a contest, any more than SAT scores and making the cheerleading… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Because Marian was the love of my life. For a long time. And that's the kind of information you share when you're… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Even if he is my best friend in theory, I sometimes feel as if I share more of my life with Cate… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Don’t go giving this encounter any crazy meaning like you did with him the first time around. It doesn’t mean a thing.… — 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
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I’ve often let my goals supersede the journey—and the love of what I’m doing. A constant battle to stay in control, get… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“A feeling that I know so little about the world. And maybe the tiniest bit of excitement that there are real possibilities… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense… — 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
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
