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Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

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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Perfect
Ever
Nothing
Make

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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
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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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True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
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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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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 have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really know why I went to law school.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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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.
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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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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.
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