Top 209 Quotes & Sayings by Emily Giffin - Page 4

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

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.

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

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

It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.