Emily Giffin Quotes

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

I've had my heart broken one too many times.

I have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

We've all had our share of relationships failed.

Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye, we got onto something, I hold on to the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding, cuz it seems to me, this thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell me cuz one second is perfect now you're halfway out the door. And I stood at the phone, you still haven't called. And you feel so below you, can't feel nothing at all. And I flashback to when he said forever and always.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.