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Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.

Emily Giffin

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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Verbs
Commitment
Love

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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.
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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.
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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
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What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.
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I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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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.
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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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