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You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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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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After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
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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 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.
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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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Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
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I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
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We are in love and meant to be together.
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The whole misery loves company thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.
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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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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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I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.
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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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It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.
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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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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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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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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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You can love someone you mistrust.
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i want to make it official, i want to make it forever
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