Emily Giffin

“It was a mistake. You didn't try to hurt anyone.”

— Emily Giffin

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

— Emily Giffin

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

— Emily Giffin

We are in love and meant to be together.

— Emily Giffin

“Love is sharing a life together”

— Emily Giffin

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

— Emily Giffin

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

— Emily Giffin

I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.

— Emily Giffin

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

— Emily Giffin

“his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference”

— Emily Giffin

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

— Emily Giffin

“If she liked him so darn much, she should have done something about it. Taken some real action.”

— Emily Giffin

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

— Emily Giffin

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

— Emily Giffin

To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.

— Emily Giffin

“Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.”

— Emily Giffin

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

My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise…

— Emily Giffin

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but…

— Emily Giffin

“thinking that so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and…

— Emily Giffin

“Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. by Michael.”

— Emily Giffin

“Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People…

— Emily Giffin

“So there the two of us were. Frozen in time, living in the moment, focused only on our immediate desires. Which of…

— Emily Giffin

And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do.…

— Emily Giffin

Maybe thats what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to…

— Emily Giffin

Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for…

— Emily Giffin

“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

“Sometimes there are no happy endings, No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But maybe that's what it all comes down…

— Emily Giffin

“I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained…

— Emily Giffin

I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show…

— Emily Giffin

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

“I wonder why I miss her and Dex does not. Perhaps it is because I've known her so much longer. Or maybe…

— Emily Giffin

“ You are an amazing person, and I don't know where the feelings that you give me come from. What I do…

— Emily Giffin

“I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent…

— Emily Giffin

Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight…

— Emily Giffin

“I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and…

— Emily Giffin

“I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I came across…

— Emily Giffin

Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she…

— Emily Giffin

“Even if he is my best friend in theory, I sometimes feel as if I share more of my life with Cate…

— Emily Giffin