Emily Giffin Quotes

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.

Bad chances were better than no chances.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

When there's a war, people get married.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.