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…
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Emily Giffin
Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. Her best known works are Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only. 2Early life Emily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief for the school's newspaper. Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia. 2Career After graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. However, she was determined to seriously pursue her writing. In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Her first young adult novel, Lily Holding True, was rejected by eight publisher
The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn -- so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.
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.
Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.
I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that.
I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
It never ceases to amaze me how foolproof the rule is: the person who cares the least (or pretends to) holds the power.
I tried to be angry, but how can you be mad at someone for not wanting to be with you?
We were both driven less by the desire to succeed than by an all-pervasive fear of failure.
So I feel unsettled about my future and somewhat regretful about my past.
My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might…
This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.
When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.