Emily Giffin Quotes

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

It's cool to fall in love and grow old with someone.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

We pardon as long as we love.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?

I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . .

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

It's hard to fall in love with somebody, and then break up and not have feelings for that same person.

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.