Quotes from Emily Giffin

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. I wonder what will someday bring back Dex and our few months together. Maybe the sound of Dido's voice. Maybe the scent of the Aveda shampoo I've been using all summer.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

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.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.

I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown, Baltimore is sentimental to me, and I still keep in touch with family friends I knew as a little girl.

I did read all my old diaries and was quite surprised by the overwhelming melancholic tone. I remember things being rosier than they really were.

Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right person for you. That takes some time to figure out

I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

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.

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.

Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

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

Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.

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

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.