Emily Giffin Quotes

“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

“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

“You can love someone you mistrust.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“Whenever I hear of someone else's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for granted--and that likely would have been forgotten altogether but for what followed. The before snapshots.”
― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

“I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming?”
― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

“That either (a) she uses children to hide her real adult emotions, or (b) she is still a child herself.”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love

“I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most.”
― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

“Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.

But my personal favorite defense has always been anger, with its trusty offshoots of self-righteous indignation, bitterness, and resentment.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I think about the thin, fragile line separating all of us from misfortune, almost as a way of putting a few coins in my own gratitude meter, of safeguarding against and after happening to me.”
― Emily Giffin

“Some thinks will never be okay.”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love

“Some things will never be okay.”
― Emily Giffin, First Comes Love