The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making… — 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 some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“We are one of those couples I used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are… — 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
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
I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben.… — 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 have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you… — 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
You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can… — 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
Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think. — 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
No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to… — 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
