Quotes of Emily Giffin - somelinesforyou

“ …Love is the sun of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together ”

- Emily Giffin

“ I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you’re single among a room full of couples. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples. ”

- Emily Giffin

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

- Emily Giffin

“ I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But 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. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back. ”

- 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. ”

- Emily Giffin

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

- Emily Giffin

“ Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ Life's not blackandwhite. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. 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 things spills, you aren't as devastated. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed) ”

- Emily Giffin

“ We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith. ”

- Emily Giffin

“ But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true. ”

- Emily Giffin

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

- Emily Giffin
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