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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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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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Make
Things
Love
People
Pick
Picks
Yeah

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He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.
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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 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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Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.
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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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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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Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
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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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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.
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Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
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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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We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own. -- Leo
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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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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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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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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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