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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
Love
Verb
Verbs
Commitment

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True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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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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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.
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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy
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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
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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.
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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.
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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
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i want to make it official, i want to make it forever
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Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
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One way isn't better than the other they're just different.
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