Top 200 Emily Giffin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”

— Emily Giffin

2. “You can run but you can’t hide.”

— Emily Giffin

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

— Emily Giffin

4. “A son is a son ’til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.”

— Emily Giffin

5. “I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

— Emily Giffin

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6. “You’ll never regret being a good friend.”

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7. “Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.”

— Emily Giffin

8. “People make time for what matters to them.”

— Emily Giffin

9. “It’s like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it’s sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they’ve missed in your life. In the world.”

— Emily Giffin

10. “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.”

— Emily Giffin

11. “I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you’re single among a room full of couples.”

— Emily Giffin

12. “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.”

— Emily Giffin

13. “Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past.”

— Emily Giffin

14. “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

15. “It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”

— Emily Giffin

16. “Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.”

— Emily Giffin

17. “Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it’s important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.”

— Emily Giffin

18. “I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will.”

— Emily Giffin

19. “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.”

— Emily Giffin

20. “Things are what they are and there’s no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.”

— Emily Giffin

21. “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

22. “You can’t quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.”

— Emily Giffin

23. “Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.”

— Emily Giffin

24. “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.”

— Emily Giffin

25. “People generally didn’t cheat in good relationships.”

— Emily Giffin

26. “And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.”

— Emily Giffin

27. “Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It’s a choice.”

— Emily Giffin

28. “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.”

— Emily Giffin

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

— Emily Giffin

30. “Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.”

— Emily Giffin

31. “Life’s not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.”

— Emily Giffin

32. “I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.”

— Emily Giffin

33. “I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.”

— Emily Giffin

34. “Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you’re taking something seriously.”

— Emily Giffin

35. “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.”

— Emily Giffin

36. “Anything worthwhile is tough.”

— Emily Giffin

37. “I’ve always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?”

— Emily Giffin

38. “There is no grief like heartbreak.”

— Emily Giffin

39. “He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.”

— Emily Giffin

40. “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.”

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41. “I know by now that you can’t control your life, no matter how hard you try. That inevitably people leave and disappoint and die. But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but in the end, it is the only thing that remains.”

— Emily Giffin

42. “How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical – but that I don’t have to compare anymore.”

— Emily Giffin

43. “But there is one constant, one thing you can always count on: that not only does love come first, but at the end, it is the only thing that remains.”

— Emily Giffin

44. “Second chances are rare and wonderful.”

— Emily Giffin

45. “It’s the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...”

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46. “In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”

— Emily Giffin

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

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48. “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

49. “You don’t have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.”

— Emily Giffin

50. “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.”

— Emily Giffin