Emily Giffin Quotes

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Unfortunately, I can’t run from my heart. It hurts, deep inside my body. And I know I’ll never be the same.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

The heart was made to be broken.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.