I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the… — 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
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
Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be… — 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
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is… — 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
And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind… — 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
