Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle. Emily Giffin More Quotes by Emily Giffin More Quotes From Emily Giffin 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. Emily Giffin where-we-come important past I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives. Emily Giffin two kids thinking 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. Emily Giffin understood said people She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much. Emily Giffin fool wonder lost Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone. Emily Giffin if-you-truly-love-someone unforgivable love-someone Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever. Emily Giffin forever heart may There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more. Emily Giffin regret sorry two It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. Emily Giffin occasional fleeting human-nature He who fails to plan, plans to fail. Emily Giffin future-planning poor-planning failing I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling. Emily Giffin unfinished-business encounters stubborn You can run but you can't hide Emily Giffin marine-corps escaping running I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain. Emily Giffin real writing character The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. Emily Giffin ordinary-days praying moving And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try. Emily Giffin winning believe fall I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Emily Giffin hate mother opposites I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith. Emily Giffin fate decision thinking Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. Emily Giffin regret scary feelings After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy? Emily Giffin boys thinking What if two people want to be your partner, then what? Emily Giffin what-if two people There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love. Emily Giffin audience
