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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
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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Crazy
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Life

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Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole things happening for a reason drill.
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We are in love and meant to be together.
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I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.
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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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Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.
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When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.
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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
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That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.
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It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.
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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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You can love someone you mistrust.
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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
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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.
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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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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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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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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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Anything worthwhile is tough.
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