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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 worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Past Known Worst Trump Our Past Your Past Let Him Go

Book:Baby Proof: A Novel

Source: Baby Proof: A Novel

“I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.”

Writing Firsts Persons Common First Person Protagonists

Author:Emily Giffin

“I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.”

Persons I Can Shining Nervous Perfectionist Moody

Author:Emily Giffin

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

Persons Love Is True Love Uplifting Better Person True Love Is Love The One You Re

Author:Emily Giffin

“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.”

Thinking Way Persons Together Individual Grows Relationship Individual Happiness

Book:Heart of the Matter: A Novel

Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel

“I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.”

People Thinking Way Persons Two Real Feelings Together Individual Grows Difficult Effort Imagine Fades Individual Happiness

Book:Heart of the Matter: A Novel

Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel

“The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.”

Persons Whole Company Too Much Fine Bears Misery

Book:Baby Proof: A Novel

Source: Baby Proof: A Novel

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

Wells Persons Sometimes Might Figures Love Someone Right Person

Book:Baby Proof: A Novel

Source: Baby Proof: A Novel

“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

“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

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

Something Borrowed: A NovelRelated source material

Love the One You're WithRelated source material

Baby Proof: A NovelRelated source material

Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something BlueRelated source material

The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the MatterRelated source material

Heart of the MatterRelated source material

Baby ProofRelated source material

Heart of the Matter: A NovelRelated source material

Something Blue: A NovelRelated source material

Where We Belong: A NovelRelated source material

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