“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
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
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 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
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
“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.” — 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
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
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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 Image
