Emily Giffin Quotes

I've never really dated actresses except when I was really young.

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

I truly believe in love, and I think that every relationship should start the way that our relationship started with our first love when we were 16, 17 or 18.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

I love women. My life revolves around them.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!

I love, love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love

I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Angeline's been hanging out with that dhampir. I just saw them walking off together. Is something going on with them?" "Which dhampir?" I asked. "The one with the fake British accent." "I don't think it's fake." "Well, whatever." Even I could read the jealousy in Trey's features. "What's up with them?" "Pretty sure there's nothing." "Then why are they always together?" Because she's trying to get over you, I thought.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?