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We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own. -- Leo

Emily Giffin

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
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Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
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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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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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Anything worthwhile is tough.
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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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You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.
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He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
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I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens, I say, realizing that just seeing what happens is my version of going for it.
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Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.
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Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.
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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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Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
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My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.
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I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
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One way isn't better than the other they're just different.
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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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She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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