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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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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Stories
Decisions
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Independent
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Stronger
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Characters
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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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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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After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
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Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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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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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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And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
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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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I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.
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How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.
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i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.
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I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
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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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You can love someone you mistrust.
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There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.
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Anything worthwhile is tough.
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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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