I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap. It cheapens the giver and the recipient.

— Emily Giffin

I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.

— Emily Giffin

I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses... It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.

— Emily Giffin

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

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

— Emily Giffin

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 container 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.

— Emily Giffin

I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no easy answers, and that anyone who says there are has never been in our shoes.

— Emily Giffin

I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. Furthermore, I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.

— Emily Giffin

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

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