Emily Giffin Quotes

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.

I think, for other people who have lost someone and have loved again, it's a beautiful thing. But it's just not really on my horizon.

I have faith that I'll find love again, and if I don't, I'm okay with that.

You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love inevitably forces one to look at their own life, and that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on what the person has going on or what they've experienced. The search for love and heartbreak is a fairly university condition and everybody will take away from it something different.