All We Ever Wanted Quotes

“People make time for what matters to them.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Because sometimes you just can’t see the things that are the closest to you.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Justice isn’t only about what a person deserves, but also about what a person needs.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“But I cherished our filterless relationship and considered it the truest measure of a best friend, greater than pure affection. Who was the person you trusted enough to be your most transparent self with, in both good times and bad?”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“I felt myself tense up, having long noticed that this was something men (and boys, obviously) did after any breakup. Dub their exes “crazy.” Discredit them, make it seem as if the men were lucky to have gotten out of the relationship. In fact, Julie had once told me it was the most common narrative in the aftermath of a divorce—the justification men used for their own misconduct. A form of misogyny.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“But I also knew in my heart that I wouldn’t cover for my son if he committed a terrible crime. Any crime. I wouldn’t lie for him. I wouldn’t obstruct justice for him. I would stand by him, but I would also want him to confess and truly repent and bear responsibility for his actions. I would want him to earn and deserve his forgiveness.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“What I can’t stand are the judgmental hypocrites—people who talk a big Christian game yet don’t even make a cursory attempt to follow the Golden Rule, let alone some of those pesky commandments”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“She was generally a happy person but had a tendency to live in the past, making frequent references to “when you kids were little.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“But I cherished our filterless relationship and considered it the truest measure of a best friend, greater than pure affection.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“It was probably a function of getting older—I think we all become exaggerated versions of ourselves,”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Because sometimes you just can't see the things that are closest to you.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“To be clear, I have no problem with religion or people who are religious, even those who are outspoken about their faith. What I can't stand are the judgmental hypocrites- people who talk a big Christian game yet don't even make a cursory attempt to follow the Golden Rule, let alone some of those pesky commandments.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Parenting can be a real drain, even when sharing the misery with a spouse. Alone it was hard as fuck.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“hesitated, thinking of all the ways I could change the subject, then made a spur-of-the-moment decision that I was finished with small talk and surface conversation and diversions and lies of any kind, no matter how small. At least for right now, as I sat at my parents’ dining room table, with a kind man who had once loved me, and who still prayed to God before supper.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“In some ways, though she had very high moral standards, she was actually the least judgmental person I knew. But ever since the seventh grade, she’d always given it to me straight. It had caused a few arguments over the years, as sometimes she hurt my feelings with her bluntness. But I cherished our filterless relationship and considered it the truest measure of a best friend, greater than pure affection. Who was the person you trusted enough to be your most transparent self with, in both good times and bad?”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Minigolf,” she said with stone seriousness, “is a metaphor for life.”
I smiled and said, “Oh, really?”
“Yes. I mean, think about it….Do you take it seriously? Too seriously? Do you enjoy it? Do you keep careful score? Do you get upset when you lose? Do you cheat? And if you do cheat, how do you react when you’re busted? Are you sheepish? Sorry? Do you do it again?”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Minigolf,” she said with stone seriousness, “is a metaphor for life.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“I needed to have a thick skin.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Conversation felt healing, and we all needed that.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“frustrating and disorienting”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“I’ve always considered myself lucky that I could mostly earn a living by doing what I love, but a bonus has been the sheer escape that comes with woodworking. What do they call it? Being in the zone or the flow?”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“Kirk become too obsessed with it? Had I somehow lost myself as Finch grew”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

“The late afternoon sun highlighted all her lines and wrinkles, making her look older than I thought of her as. Then again, she probably was in her early seventies by now, which somehow seemed so much older than one’s late sixties.”
― Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted