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What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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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'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
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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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The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
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I don't really know why I went to law school.
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One way isn't better than the other they're just different.
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We are in love and meant to be together.
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i want to make it official, i want to make it forever
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Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
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No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
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True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
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Don't you wish we could pick the people we love? Yeah, I say. Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.
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When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.
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What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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