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."

"...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."

"I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not …"

"I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. 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."

"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."

"Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them."

"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…"

"Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means."