Emily Giffin People Quotations

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

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.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

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

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