Emily Giffin Archive

"I am filled with what can only be described as relief. Relief that I got to this place, that this is my life." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"He has painted me into a corner, created a layer of deceit between me and the people I love. Sure, it is a small secret in the scheme of things, but it is still a secret, and it will grow--multiply--if I return his call. So I simply won't do it." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"Although I'm happily married, I feel a strange bond to him and don't want this to be it between us, forever." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"Suzanne pauses and then says, 'Do you love him?' I'm not sure who she means--Andy or Leo--but either way, I tell her yes, I do. 'Then don't do this,' she says, obviously talking about Andy. 'Suzanne,' I say, glancing down the hall toward Leo. 'It's not that simple.' 'Yes it is,' she says, cutting me off. 'See, that's the thing, Ell. It really is that simple.'" - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"It is the way we used to talk--our between-the-lines language, seemingly nonsensical, but stepped in meaning. It is a way I've never talked to Andy--who is always so open, candid. I decide, for at least the hundredth time today, that one way isn't better than the other, they are just different." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"I realize that for the longest time, I saw Andy as perfect, and our life together as perfect. And in some bizarre way, once Leo came back into my life, this yellow-brick road started to feel like settling. Settling for perfection, for all the things that you're supposed to want. A good family. A beautiful home. Wealth. It was almost as if I discounted my feelings, because surely I couldn't truly be in love with Andy, too, on top of all those check marks in his column. Subconsciously, I think I assumed that any feelings I had for dark, difficult, distant Leo had to be more legitimate. The stuff of sad love songs." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"'Well, that's just great, Ellen. That's great,' Andy says, his voice drenched in sarcasm. 'Your ex-boyfriend is important to you. Just what every husband wants to hear.'" - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"But as I stare into my husband's eyes, the wall between the two worlds crumbles--the world on the place last night and all that could have been, and my life with Andy, moving forward, in our home in Atlanta. A home with two, maybe three, cars in the garage. And a slobbering golden retriever chasing fuzzy yellow tennis balls across a lush, green lawn." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"I wish I could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

"He closes with, 'I miss us'--which is more powerful and compelling than merely missing me--especially because I feel the same way. I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will. Overcome with grief and the sense of impending, final loss, I touch his hand. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone." - Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin