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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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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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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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There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.
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And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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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!
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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
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His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
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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.
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This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.
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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 try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
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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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For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.
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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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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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