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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
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Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Commitment
Love
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And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that
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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
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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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There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.
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I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.
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There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.
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I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
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What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
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i want to make it official, i want to make it forever
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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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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.
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He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
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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.
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