Quote

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.

Emily Giffin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Going
Learned
Much
High
Something
Greater
Make
Happiness
Losses
Life
Means
Stakes
Else
Inspire
Part
Losing
Mean
Loss

More quotes by Emily Giffin

Image
Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
Emily Giffin
Image
I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
Emily Giffin
Image
there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.
Emily Giffin
Image
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
Emily Giffin
Image
Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
Emily Giffin
Image
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
Emily Giffin
Image
For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
Emily Giffin
Image
His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
Emily Giffin
Image
I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
Emily Giffin
Image
You can love someone you mistrust.
Emily Giffin
Image
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?
Emily Giffin
Image
Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.
Emily Giffin
Image
In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
I don't really know why I went to law school.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy
Emily Giffin
Image
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
Emily Giffin