Quote

What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.

Emily Giffin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Point
Says

More quotes by Emily Giffin

Image
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
Emily Giffin
Image
You can love someone you mistrust.
Emily Giffin
Image
The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
Emily Giffin
Image
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy
Emily Giffin
Image
Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
Emily Giffin
Image
I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.
Emily Giffin
Image
We are in love and meant to be together.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!
Emily Giffin
Image
Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.
Emily Giffin
Image
After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
Emily Giffin
Image
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.
Emily Giffin
Image
There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.
Emily Giffin