Baby Proof Quotes

“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.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“You can love someone you mistrust.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That
other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Don't you wish we could pick the
people we love?"
"Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always
loves more.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision
where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath.
Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I will find the good in this loss. I will make something
happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“There is no grief like heartbreak.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“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.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“The whole "misery loves company"
thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the
other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Throughout the ordeal, 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 my energy on something than the ache in my heart.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“No matter what the
circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's
not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion
grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I
wanted to.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow
less likely to happen.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame
and hate. Focus my energy on something other than the ache in my heart.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof