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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1800197 | She says that everyone creates a version of her life that she wishes were true and tries to believe. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1115135 | I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with? If the answer is no, then will the lapse of time or a change of geography really fix the problem? And regardless of the answer, what does the mere question say about my relationship with Andy? | Emily Giffin | ||
| e23cd2b | But it's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b014a82 | endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 66f9c0a | I'm not really shy. I'm an introvert." I went on to explain the difference--the fact that being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time." | Emily Giffin | ||
| 8665a04 | A big mistake. The kind of mistake that brews resentment and dangerous fissures. The kind of mistake that makes your heart ache. The kind of mistake that makes you long for another choice, the past, someone else. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 03ba352 | So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season--or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. | life love mothers-and-daughters | Emily Giffin | |
| 4bc97e0 | Our choices. Our fleeting moments together. | life love mothers-and-daughters | Emily Giffin | |
| 302b89f | I think of Josie's theory that it's all interrelated, that it all goes back to that night in December, all of our decisions and dreams and mistakes from the past inextricably linked. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 97e4550 | Clutter is knowing all of the things that you absorb through your fashion magazines. Clutter is knowing which celebrities broke up with whom and why. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1e00cfc | I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 05601e9 | No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to. | emily-giffin forgive forgiveness grudge | Emily Giffin | |
| 8250401 | 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 over while praying it's not, looking for any shred of hope, insisting that they only want closure when what they really want is that one last conversation disguised as seeking closure while they work to keep the door open for more." | Emily Giffin | ||
| 6257093 | So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing. | collage football life love texas | Emily Giffin | |
| 967971d | Ne volim krajeve i pocetke. Uvijek bih se radije ljuljuskala u sredini. | Emily Giffin | ||
| f980197 | A really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 0200d72 | So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season - or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 35683be | Did you always know you wanted to practice law?" She considers this - considers the truth - that she had no real passion for the law, but simply wanted to achieve for the sake of achievement...But of course, she did not divulge any of this, and instead says, "No, not really." | Emily Giffin | ||
| 821e549 | employees. | Michael Connelly | ||
| 3ceb2f2 | Although too much time has gone by to miss her, I feel regret that I didn't maintain our friendship. Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are. | Emily Giffin | ||
| f3b033e | past something, | Emily Giffin | ||
| 64e2da2 | I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most. | heart-of-the-matter | Emily Giffin | |
| d810421 | I once offhandedly mentioned that I wanted to pick out my own ring, something I have to look at every day, but there is something decidedly unromantic and a little bit depressing about having a symbol of love reduced to such scientific classifications - especially classifications focusing on imperfections. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 900fd33 | But that's the thing about the sucker punch; the sucker element hurts worse than the punch. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b2a8517 | I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming? | heart-of-the-matter misfortune | Emily Giffin | |
| a5f1ee1 | let those surface issues go, to value content over form. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 8f07697 | Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill. But my personal favorite defense has always been anger, with its trusty offshoots of self-righteous indignation, bitterness, and resentment." | baby-proof bitter emily-giffin sad sorrow | Emily Giffin | |
| 01f5266 | I also appreciate Amy's forty-something perspective that the thirties are a grind for many, and motherhood isn't the constantly blissful journey everyone thinks it will be when they attend their pink or blue or yellow baby shower. | Emily Giffin | ||
| ee2c20a | I guess she's been like this since her arrival here, maybe even our whole lives, but sometimes when you know someone well, you don't see them as they really are. So I honestly think I've managed to ignore this fundamental part of her personality, perhaps not wanting to see my closest friend in this light. | Emily Giffin | ||
| af441d6 | never had a good gut feeling. It wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position | Emily Giffin | ||
| 6f9fd0e | that hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 6afdf1e | wasn't so much that I didn't have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 01af4c5 | I know what I want, and where to go. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| f6b5415 | On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place. | Emily Giffin | ||
| dfd32fa | Cremation was definitely the way to go. It was the way I wanted to go, rather than risk the possibility of going out on a bad-hair day. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 74a9962 | reckless abandon and know that there will be someone | Emily Giffin | ||
| 664f08b | We have no relationship without honesty. - by Claude | honesty-love love-and-relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| e3d0ac7 | Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings. | Emily Giffin | ||
| e61337f | Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine. | Emily Giffin | ||
| f0641c7 | a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere | words | Emily Giffin | |
| dd69499 | Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right? | Emily Giffin | ||
| a52296c | That although I love Nick, on most days I don't think he lassoed the moon | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1b23b16 | 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. | love | Emily Giffin | |
| a3d5fb6 | Sometimes you get the bead. Sometimes the bear get you. - Coach Carr | Emily Giffin |