Emily Giffin Quotes

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romantic life. Then again, if the course of true love ran more smoothly, it would have a terribly detrimental effect on our cache of love stories.

I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate.

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

I suppose John ought to be the center of my life, but he's not because he's out of it so much of the time.

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

If you're truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don't finish sentences. They don't say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people's ideas.

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

Sometimes I'll be with a girl and I can tell she's still thinking she's watching 'Married... with Children.' They aren't able to get to know me.