Emily Giffin Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together. Love the One You're With

2. 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. Something Borrowed

3. I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples. Baby Proof

4. I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But 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. Love the One You're With

5. 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. Heart of the Matter

6. 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. Something Borrowed

7. You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

8. But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true. Something Borrowed

9. But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us. Something Borrowed

10. 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. Baby Proof

11. 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. Baby Proof

12. 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. Baby Proof

13. People generally didn't cheat in good relationships. Something Blue

14. The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way. Something Blue

15. 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. Something Borrowed