“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, quote from Love the One You're With
“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But 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, quote from Love the One You're With
“A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. ”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“Sometimes there are no happy endings, No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But 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, quote from Love the One You're With
“Love as a verb. Love as a commitment. ”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“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.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
“Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Love the One You're With
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“Curl moaned. Mattie rocked. Propelled by the sound, Mattie rocked her out of that bed, out of that room, into a blue vastness just underneath the sun and above time. She rocked her over Aegean seas so clean they shine like crystal, so clear the fresh blood of sacrificed babies torn from their mothers arms and given to Neptune could be seen like pink froth on the water. She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers swept their children's entrails off laboratory floors. They flew past the spilled brains of Senegalese infants whose mothers had dashed them on the wooden sides of slave ships. And she rocked on.
She rocked her into her childhood and let her see murdered dreams. And she rocked her back, back into the womb, to the nadir of her hurt, and they found it-a slight silver splinter, embedded just below the surface of her skin. And Mattie rocked and pulled-and the splinter gave way, but its roots were deep, gigantic, ragged, and they tore up flesh with bits of fat and muscle tissue clinging to them. They left a huge hole, which was already starting to pus over, but Mattie was satisfied. It would heal.”
― Gloria Naylor, quote from The Women of Brewster Place
“The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.”
― Ben Elton, quote from Blind Faith
“What was the secret that the serpent told Eve? That she could eat a certain fruit? Pah. That was a euphemism. The fruit was carnal knowledge, and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it. How did they know it? Nowhere in Genesis is there even the merest hint of the equation: Forbidden fruit equals sin equals sex. We know it to be true because there can only be one thing so central to mankind. Sex.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
“My friend has never been to a picture show, nor does she intend to: "I'd rather hear you tell the story, Buddy. That way I can imagine it more. Besides, a person my age shouldn't squander their eyes. When the Lord comes, let me see him clear." In addition to never having seen a movie, she has never: eaten in a restaurant, traveled more than five miles from home, received or sent a telegram, read anything except funny papers and the Bible, worn cosmetics, cursed, wished someone harm, told a lie on purpose, let a hungry dog go hungry. Here are a few things she has done, does do: killed with a hoe the biggest rattlesnake ever seen in this county (sixteen rattles), dip snuff (secretly), tame hummingbirds (just try it) till they balance on her finger, tell ghost stories (we both believe in ghosts) so tingling they chill you in July, talk to herself, take walks in the rain, grow the prettiest japonicas in town, know the recipe for every sort of oldtime Indian cure, including a magical wart remover.”
― Truman Capote, quote from A Christmas Memory
“When the people elected a president like this one, who ran a campaign like the one he ran, it was hard to imagine what kind of scandal might bring him down.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Alvin Journeyman
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