“You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end, You'll have no time for grievin'.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“As I’ve said many times, the only way to stay trim is to eat bacon.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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
How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I… — 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
“You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“As of that moment, we had a secret, and having a secret—even a little one—creates a bond between two people.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure… — 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
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just… — 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
He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“ You are an amazing person, and I don't know where the feelings that you give me come from. What I do… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I came across… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places,… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time! — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of… — 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
“It is not what I had planned - this day, this moment, these unlikely relationships, both old and new. Yet 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
This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not… — 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
“Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — 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
