110+ Emily Giffin Quotes On Friendship, Being And A New Book

Emily Giffin is an American author of several popular chick lit novels. She is best known for her debut novel, Something Borrowed, which was adapted into a feature film in 2011. Her other popular works include Something Blue, Baby Proof, Heart of the Matter, and The One & Only. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Emily Giffin on love, friendship, being.

Top 10 Emily Giffin Quotes

1. Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
2. A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
3. ...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
4. Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
5. When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
6. 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.
7. Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
8. 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 thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.
9. (mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.
10. It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

Emily Giffin Short Quotes

• Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
• Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
• He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
• His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
• People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
• But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.
• You can run but you can't hide
• Anything worthwhile is tough.
• When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.
• I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

Emily Giffin Quotes About Love

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. — Emily Giffin

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you. — Emily Giffin

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past — Emily Giffin

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits. — 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

How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore. — Emily Giffin

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone. — 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? — Emily Giffin

Emily Giffin Quotes About Friendship

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship. — Emily Giffin

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend. — Emily Giffin

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them. — Emily Giffin

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend. — Emily Giffin

Emily Giffin Famous Quotes And Sayings

No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness. — Emily Giffin

But 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

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

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. — Emily Giffin

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule. — Emily Giffin

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

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition. — Emily Giffin

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

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world. — 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. — Emily Giffin

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it. — Emily Giffin

Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested. — 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. — Emily Giffin

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. — Emily Giffin

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it. — Emily Giffin

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. — Emily Giffin

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

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. — Emily Giffin

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 think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment. — Emily Giffin

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past. — Emily Giffin

There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media. — Emily Giffin

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief. — Emily Giffin

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously. — Emily Giffin

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look. — Emily Giffin

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

But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love. — Emily Giffin

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me. — Emily Giffin

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story. — Emily Giffin

And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one. — Emily Giffin

I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens," I say, realizing that just "seeing what happens" is my version of "going for it. — Emily Giffin

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will — Emily Giffin

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy? — Emily Giffin

I don't break up, I trade up — Emily Giffin

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. — 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

Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think. — Emily Giffin

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis. — Emily Giffin

Love as a verb. Love as a commitment. — 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

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

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. — Emily Giffin

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. — Emily Giffin

Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day at the alter, with equal parts love and hope. And once again, I close my eyes, ready to take a leap of faith, ready for the long, hard road ahead. I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but then again, I never really did. — 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. — 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

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. — Emily Giffin

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control. — Emily Giffin

you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates. — 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. — 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. — Emily Giffin

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side. — Emily Giffin

What if two people want to be your partner, then what? — Emily Giffin

I don't really know why I went to law school. — Emily Giffin

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage — Emily Giffin

You can love someone you mistrust. — Emily Giffin

I really try to focus on my books and readers. — Emily Giffin

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way. — Emily Giffin

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive. — 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. — Emily Giffin

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

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. — Emily Giffin

Life Lessons by Emily Giffin

1. Emily Giffin's work emphasizes the importance of following your heart and trusting your instincts, even when it's difficult to do so.
2. She also encourages readers to be brave and take risks in order to find happiness and fulfillment in life.
3. Finally, Giffin's stories remind us that we all make mistakes, but it's how we learn from them and move forward that really matters.