Emily Giffin Quotes

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

There are always loose ends in real life.

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Real life seems to have no plots.

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.