Emily Giffin Quotes

Love will make a way out of no way.

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.'

My journey with Krishna Vamsi had started with revenge and ended with love. When I went to Krishna Vamsi's office to work as an assistant director, I was sent out. Then I had thought they might one day need me.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

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.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

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

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I want a family someday and I know that I have to let love in to create that and I think there is someone out there for me, but I'm not on some crazy hunt for that right now.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

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

As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.