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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.

Emily Giffin

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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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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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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.
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When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.
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Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
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Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
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Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
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I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.
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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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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 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.
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I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
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Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
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He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
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