Emily Giffin quote: "Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now."

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion...
EMILY GIFFIN

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
EMILY GIFFIN

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important t...
EMILY GIFFIN

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call ...
EMILY GIFFIN

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.
EMILY GIFFIN

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is someth...
EMILY GIFFIN

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
EMILY GIFFIN

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the...
EMILY GIFFIN

It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad....
EMILY GIFFIN

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
EMILY GIFFIN

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, d...
EMILY GIFFIN

dangerous chemistry
EMILY GIFFIN

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
EMILY GIFFIN

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in ...
EMILY GIFFIN

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy ...
EMILY GIFFIN

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to...
EMILY GIFFIN

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive...
EMILY GIFFIN

his unwavering confidence - but now, it feels like a brand of indifference
EMILY GIFFIN

I enjoy taking a protagonist and putting her in a situation that women initially make judgements abo...
EMILY GIFFIN

My life is very unglamorous, ... I have twin sons, they're 20 months old, they run me into the groun...
EMILY GIFFIN

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a fr...
EMILY GIFFIN

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
EMILY GIFFIN

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
EMILY GIFFIN

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and thi...
EMILY GIFFIN

So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rath...
EMILY GIFFIN

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel."
...
EMILY GIFFIN

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometim...
EMILY GIFFIN

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship...
EMILY GIFFIN

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
EMILY GIFFIN

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ...
EMILY GIFFIN

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perf...
EMILY GIFFIN

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
EMILY GIFFIN

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young ch...
EMILY GIFFIN

I don't really know why I went to law school.
EMILY GIFFIN

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make,...
EMILY GIFFIN

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
EMILY GIFFIN

I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I c...
EMILY GIFFIN

I was one of the early converts.
GORDON GIFFIN

I was one of the early converts. I was using a BlackBerry as I drove. It's a critical part of our in...
GORDON GIFFIN

There's nothing routine about this patent case.
GORDON GIFFIN

The tone at the top does matter. Friendship is important. It makes a huge difference.
GORDON GIFFIN

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosi...
EMILY

Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTE

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and...
EMILY DICKINSON

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON

Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

My friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSON

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and e...
EMILY MORTIMER

I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
EMILY OSMENT

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTE

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
EMILY CARR

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
EMILY BLUNT

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as m...
EMILY DICKINSON

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh...
EMILY CARR

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, ...
EMILY BERRINGTON

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON

I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON

I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON

I'm a big zombie buff.
EMILY VANCAMP

How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl...
EMILY WATSON

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON

May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
the end! Where is she? Not there - ...
EMILY BRONTë

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTë

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
EMILY BRONTë

Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no...
EMILY BRONTë

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...
EMILY BRONTë

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë

She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë

Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë

It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo...
EMILY CARROLL

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON

My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l...
EMILY WEISS

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th...
EMILY DESCHANEL

Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.
EMILY DICKENSON

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH

Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTë

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTë

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON

Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSON

You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battle...
EMILY THORNE

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
EMILY DICKINSON

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most imperso...
EMILY MAGUIRE

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë

Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë

The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ...
EMILY BRONTE

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
EMILY PRAGER

Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSON

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
EMILY DICKINSON

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about th...
EMILY POST

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
EMILY POST

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...
EMILY BRONTE

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
EMILY DICKINSON

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
EMILY CARR

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
EMILY DICKINSON

Let us go in; the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON

Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just...
EMILY DICKINSON

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
EMILY BRONTE

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words --...
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON

Where thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSON

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSON

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n...
EMILY DICKINSON

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe...
EMILY DICKINSON

How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro...
EMILY DICKINSON

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone y...
EMILY CARR

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTE

Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary gra...
EMILY BRONT

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE

To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu...
EMILY MILLER

Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi...
EMILY BRONTE

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e...
EMILY CARR

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON

A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON

The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!
EMILY POST

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON

Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern sup...
EMILY POST

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON

If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON

His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From ...
EMILY DICKINSON

God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven...
EMILY DICKINSON

And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON

"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON

If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- ...
EMILY DICKINSON

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear...
EMILY DICKINSON

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ...
EMILY POST

For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON

A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON

Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON

Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT

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