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Emily Giffin

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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.
From Baby Proof
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Topic: Relationships
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
From Baby Proof
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Topic: Relationships
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
From Something Blue
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Topic: Relationships
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
From Baby Proof
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Topic: Relationships
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
From Something Blue
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Topic: Life
I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.
From Baby Proof
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Topic: Relationships
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
From Something Blue
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Topic: Relationships
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
From Something Borrowed
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Topic: Life
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.
From Heart of the Matter
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Topic: Relationships
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
From Love the One You're With
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Topic: Relationships
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.
From Something Borrowed
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Topic: Happiness, Relationships
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.
From Something Borrowed
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Topic: Life
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
From Something Borrowed
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Topic: Life
His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. 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 things spills, you aren't as devastated.
From Something Borrowed
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Topic: Life
I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
From Baby Proof
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Topic: Relationships
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.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
From Something Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
From Something Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
From Something Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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.
From Heart of the Matter
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
From Love the One You're With
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. 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 things spills, you aren't as devastated.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
From Something Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
From Something Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
From Something Blue
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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.
From Heart of the Matter
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
From Love the One You're With
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
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.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness, Relationships
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. 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 things spills, you aren't as devastated.
From Something Borrowed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
From Baby Proof
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships