Ella > Ella's Quotes

“Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Blue

“When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.”
― Emily Giffin (Love The One You're With)

“You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment. ”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”
― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Love isn't simple, Katie, and neither is life. Things that are worth having are sometimes complicated, and they evoke complicated emotions. You know, one of the reasons people often turn to alcohol or drugs is that they can't deal with complications.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Spin

“You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale.”
― Catherine McKenzie

“It seemed like almost nothing had happened, but that almost nothing changed everything for me.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Every time we make jokes about how jologs someone's school is, we are not insulting the poor student's intellectual abilities but their parents' financial capacity.”
― Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets

“Sometimes memory can be real bitch.”
― Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets

“Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.”
― Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets

“Sadyang mailap ang humanap ng tunay na pag-ibig. Madaling sabihing mahal kita, madaling isiping mahal ka niya, pero paano mo malalamang... ito na, eto na talaga?”
― Ramon Bautista, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?

“Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.”
― Ramon Bautista, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?