{"author":"Emily Giffin","author_id":"Emily+Giffin","total_quotes":70,"quotes":[{"text":"And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["friendship"],"id":5094,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["love"],"id":7321,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["marriage"],"id":33396,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["marriage"],"id":40731,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"And more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["doubt","love"],"id":48304,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"Being married cuts on your freedom. Having a husband or a relationship at all puts constraints on you. By Michael.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["marriage","relationship","relationships"],"id":55263,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall--the blind belief in fate, the whole 'things happening for a reason' drill.But my personal favorite defense has always been anger, with its trusty offshoots of self-righteous indignation, bitterness, and resentment.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["anger","baby-proof","bitter","emily-giffin","sad","sorrow"],"id":77314,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["christmas","christmas-jokes","jokes"],"id":85710,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":93213,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"},{"text":"Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.","author":"Emily Giffin","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":95449,"author_id":"Emily+Giffin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}