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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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Ever
Nothing
Make
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We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own. -- Leo
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You can love someone you mistrust.
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What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy
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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.
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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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Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.
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True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
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What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
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Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.
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you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
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Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.
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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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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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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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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.
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No scratch the word career. Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.
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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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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.
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