390 Quotes by Emily Giffin

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. "when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I'll remind of that after you've just had his baby and you have postpartum depression and feel as fat as cow and you are pumping milk into a plastic containers in the middle of the night while he's running around with some twenty-two-years old named Lissette. I'll remind you of that. Maura to Jess.

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

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life...

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that has 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 -even proposition. Someone always loves more.

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

dangerous chemistry

Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.