Emily Giffin Quotes

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

You’ll never regret being a good friend.

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

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

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 a break.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Anything worthwhile is tough.

Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.