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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
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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.
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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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Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.
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This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.
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You can love someone you mistrust.
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I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.
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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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I'm glad you were both here, I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.
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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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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.
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As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.
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