“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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“Reasons we should get married:
Because I love you.
We both look good in black boots.
I spent some time without you, and I didn’t like it.
You make me happy.
I make you laugh.
I like the way you fight.
You see through my masks.
I really love you.
You love me, too. (Though you’ve mostly said this while yelling, so perhaps I should have double-checked.)
Army of tiny vigilantes. (I have name ideas.)
Various political reasons that make sense but don’t fit with the theme of this list.
I’m holding your handwriting hostage. You can have it back when you say yes.”
― Jodi Meadows, quote from The Mirror King
“When he had the dream on Alderaan, he would get Leia out of her bed, hold her close to his chest, and hope against hope that she exhibited only her mother's gifts, not her father's.”
― E.K. Johnston, quote from Ahsoka
“But we are stronger for what's happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn't see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Through the Dark
“If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.”
― E.K. Johnston, quote from A Thousand Nights
“Dropping into a thorn bush can lead to no end of grief.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Prince of Fools
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