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Emily Giffin is an American best-selling author known for her warm and insightful novels. Her works often revolve around complex interpersonal relationships and emotional entanglements, which resonate well with readers.

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Famous Emily Giffin Quotes

“The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.”

Way Want Persons

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”

People Cheating Cheat Cheated Good Relationship Cheated On

Author:Emily Giffin

“It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.”

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.”

Loses Lines Attraction

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.”

Stills Reason Enough Vulnerable Insecure Gentleness Loving Me

Book:Something Blue: A Novel

Source: Something Blue: A Novel

“but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline”

Hard Moments Lasts Stuff Pleasure Forever Live In The Moment Deadline Obsessing Nothing Lasts Forever

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.”

Real Found Team Couple Becoming Bed Filled Excuse Worried Permanent Tension Leap Glances Soulful Leap Of Faith

Book:Something Blue: A Novel

Source: Something Blue: A Novel

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

Disappointment Void Recognizing

Book:Heart of the Matter: A Novel

Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel

“It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.”

Long Wanted Night Knowing

Book:Love the One You're With

Source: Love the One You're With

“You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.”

Thinking Checks

Book:Love the One You're With

Source: Love the One You're With

“I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.”

People Way Should Believe Two Real Shows Feelings Light Night Wish Regret Mass Dresses Evening Worn Our Wedding Wedding Night

Author:Emily Giffin

“Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.”

Hard Life Is Struggle Rich Hard Work Lucky Luck Buying Working It Tickets Lottery Lottery Ticket

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.”

Sometimes Sameness Old Movie

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.”

Way Looks Dream Bigs Kids Imagine

Book:Baby Proof: A Novel

Source: Baby Proof: A Novel

“It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.”

Want Kind Persons Has Beens Kindness Grace Missing Empathy Forgiving Sake Bitterness

Author:Emily Giffin

“But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.”

I Can Accidents Redemption

Book:Where We Belong: A Novel

Source: Where We Belong: A Novel

“Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.”

Reason Life Is Love Is Careful Distinction Subtle Crucial Be Careful Love Your Life Reason To Love

Author:Emily Giffin

“Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.”

School Emotion Summer High School Intensity Rest Of Your Life Bittersweet High School Graduation School Graduation

Book:Love the One You're With

Source: Love the One You're With

“My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.”

People Should Mean Two Sometimes Facts Names Sound Rose Confession Supportive Adopted

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

“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.”

Ifs Way Important Past Common Who We Are Where We Come

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

“I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.”

People Thinking Made Two Kids Strange Standing Glad Manage Granted

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

“I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.”

People Ifs Said Understood They Said

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.”

Said Lost Wonder Fool Loved And Lost

Book:Heart of the Matter: A Novel

Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel

“Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.”

Ifs Love Someone Unforgivable If You Truly Love Someone

Book:Where We Belong: A Novel

Source: Where We Belong: A Novel

“Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.”

Heart May Remember Forget Forever

Author:Emily Giffin

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”

Kind Two Regret Pure Asking Sorry Asking For Forgiveness

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With

“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”

Humans Interest Human Nature Fleeting Occasional

Book:Love the One You're With

Source: Love the One You're With

“Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.”

Has Beens Past Wonder Could Have Been No Point Dwelling Dwelling On The Past

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter

“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”

Plans Failing Planning Planners Future Planning Poor Planning

Book:Where We Belong: A Novel

Source: Where We Belong: A Novel

“Anything worthwhile is tough.”

Tough Worthwhile

Book:Where We Belong: A Novel

Source: Where We Belong: A Novel

“I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.”

Way Moments Quiet Inevitable Encounters Stubborn Destined Unwilling Imposing Unfinished Unfinished Business

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“You can run but you can't hide”

Running Hiding Running Away Exposure Escaping Marine Corps Runaway Getaways

Book:Love the One You're With

Source: Love the One You're With

“Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.”

Littles Hard Light Fighting Winning Cutting Cry Baby Arms Harm Goodbye Saying Goodbye Razors Hush Self Harm

Author:Emily Giffin

“I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.”

“But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship”

Want Everyday Monogamous Relationship

Author:Emily Giffin

“I really try to focus on my books and readers.”

Trying Book Focus Reader

Author:Emily Giffin

“Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!”

Writing Trying Long Character Wanted Long Time Try Again

Author:Emily Giffin

“I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.”

Trying Certain Perfect Impossible

Author:Emily Giffin

“For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.”

Light Running Enjoy Drink Husband My Husband Downtime

Author:Emily Giffin

“I don't really know why I went to law school.”

Knows School Law Law School

Author:Emily Giffin

“I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.”

Book Character Stories Age Young Coming Of Age Compelling Books And Movies

Author:Emily Giffin

“I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.”

Littles Book Bits Little Bit Jackets Cheesy

Author:Emily Giffin

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Important Break

Author:Emily Giffin

“I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.”

People Writing Trying Real Character Flawed Real Women

Author:Emily Giffin

“Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'”

Wells Bigs Laughing Pieces Husband Weakness Investment Shoes Bags My Husband Clutch

Author:Emily Giffin

“A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.”

Want Feels Should Book Life Is Choices My Own Theme My Own Life Making Choices

Author:Emily Giffin

“I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?”

Doe Secret Who We Are Intrigued

Author: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 wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Fighting Courses My Own Wife Husband Draws My Husband My Sister

Author:Emily Giffin

“Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.”

Thinking Should Life Is Wish Black White Areas Gray Black And White Exploring Terrain Gray Area

Author:Emily Giffin

“Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.”

Feels Looks Difficult Hours Involved Projects Completion Getting Started

Author:Emily Giffin

About the Author

Born: March 20, 1972
Known for: Author
Quotes: 200

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