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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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“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.”

Want Heart Important Process Bigger Being True Follow Your Heart Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Listen To Your Heart

Author:Emily Giffin

“But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.”

Want Life Mean Loss Greater Inspire Losing What You Want Stakes I Have Learned

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

“The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.”

Knows Want Firsts Ends Age Jobs Faces Guy Realizing Simple Middle Worst Youth Particular First Time Worst Things Middle Ages

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

“No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.”

People Want Wish Careers Draws Scratches Paychecks

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”

Want Enough Failing Tested Towels

Author:Emily Giffin

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”

Want Jobs Guy Simple Borrowed

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.”

Want Should Trying Believe Fall Winning Lap Darcy

Book:Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Source: Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

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

People Ifs Want Two Partners What If

Author:Emily Giffin

“No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.”

People Want I Can Jobs Passion Wish Careers Imagine Draws Following Determined Quitting Scratches Paychecks

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“i want to make it official, i want to make it forever”

Want Forever Officials

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

“Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.”

People Want Wish Picks Yeah

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

Want Trying

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: 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

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

Want Everyday Monogamous Relationship

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

About the Author

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

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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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