Emily Giffin Quotes

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Always keep looking forward, and never look back.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?

When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

Never be friends with your exes if you weren't friends with them before.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.

When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.