Emily Giffin Zitate

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”

“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”

“But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”

“Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.”

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

“You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.”

“It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you…”

“What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.”

“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”

“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.”

“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”

“Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.”

“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”

“I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will”

“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”

“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”

“Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.”

“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”

“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.”

“Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.”

“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.”

“You can love someone you mistrust.”

“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.”

“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.”