Emily Giffin Quotes

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.

I mean, it took me a long while to realize that I wasn't gonna play football on a regular basis anymore. I still play once in a while, but that took me a long while to adjust.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

Life is one big transition.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

I've been no stranger to change.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?