It's funny how the prospect of love is so much more interesting when you don't actually know the person you're fabricating a fantasy life with.

- Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night

but it doesn't even have anything to do with him. it's easier this way, because when he fails all the tests, i won't be disappointed, because they were set up in a way to ensure that he would fail. and, in turn, i would not be disappointed by the outcome.

- Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night 

But nothing is ever straightforward. And there's no such thing as forever. no matter how well you kid yourself. The truth is, you don't know anyone.

- Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night

You don't need to know any of this. But the things I don't reveal are the things I hold closest and fear losing the most. I work overtime keeping them veiled and camouflaged. You don't need to know that I walk around all day fearing the things that make me happy, and that I have been doing that for my entire life.  

- Jill A. Davis, Girls' poker night

When you run into love and it seems like some psychedelic mystery, look at it again, and again, and keep looking it until you realize the only mystery is how you've gotten by so long without it.

- Jill A. Davis, Girls' Poker Night

I close my eyes, inhale, and feel a rush of heat and energy that takes my breath away. It is the feeling of wanting something so much that it borders on an actual need, and the power and urgency of this need overwhelms me.

- Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

Was I ever truly over him? At one time I was sure that the answer was yes. But if seeing him again- and merely touching his hand- could peel back so many layers of my heart, then did I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with? 

- Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

And it felt complicated in the way that all breakups feel complicated when you're embroiled in them. While in cruel actuality, most are really quite simple. And it goes something like this: one person falls out of love-- or simply realizes that he was never really in love in the first place, wishing he could take back those words, that promise from the heart.

- Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With 

But 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 having a choice to make at all.

- Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

And unless you marry your high school sweetheart (and even sometimes then), there is usually a not-so-glorious back story. There are people and places and events that lead you to your final relationship, people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it-- like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

- Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

It was the best thing anyone had ever said to me, and it was the best for one reason: I felt exactly the same way. The person who loved me like this was the person I loved back-- which can feel like an absolute miracle. It is an absolute miracle.

- Emily Giffin, Baby Proof 

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 energy on something other than the ache in my heart.

- Emily Giffin, Baby Proof 

I wanted to be with him forever. I marveled at how such a monumental realization can unfold in an instant and change every single thing in your life.

- Emily Giffin, Something Blue

There is emotion, and then there is what you do about it

- Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

I love him for his intelligence, his sensitivity, his courage. I love him wholly and unconditionally without reservation. I love him enough to take risks. 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.

- Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed 

When you're 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, and you take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it. 

- Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed 

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, Something Borrowed 

Someday being with him will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. 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. 

- Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed 

I think to myself that when you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance 

- Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

Later, when I'd think of how I ought to cut him off, I'd think of teaching another person to know me like he did, and it seemed-- with a hypothetical person, especially-- like it would be a lot of work.

- Curtis Sittenfield, The Man of My Dreams

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

- Curtis Sittenfield, The Man of My Dreams

But I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

- Curtis Sittenfield, The Man of My Dreams

And then I think, no, no, it was none of that. It was me--all along, I was the one who resisted. I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and because I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? That possibilty, that I was intimidated by getting what I wanted, is the hardest one for me to consider, which might mean it is the likeliest.

- Curtis Sittenfield, The Man of My Dreams

It was less difficult than it probably should have been to believe that he felt exactly the way about me that I felt about him. I didn't always believe this, but there were times--between classes, say, when we almost collided in the stairwell, and then we just stood there for a few seconds on the landing, face-to-face, not moving, before we continued in opposite directions. If things were normal, wouldn't he have said something, like hi, and couldn't it perhaps be a promising sign that instead he'd said nothing

- Curtis Sittenfield, Prep

In some ways, boys were easier to read than other girls--with boys, it was pursuit and lust, it was effort.

- Curtis Sittenfield, Prep
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