Author: Emily Giffin

Quotes

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

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

- Emily Giffin

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

- Emily Giffin

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.

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

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

- Emily Giffin

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

- Emily Giffin

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

- Emily Giffin

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?

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

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

- Emily Giffin

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

- Emily Giffin

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