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The One & Only QUOTES

The One & Only QUOTES

1 " Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on! "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

2 " You know in your heart when you’re doing the right thing and when you’re not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

3 " The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

4 " As I’ve said many times, the only way to stay trim is to eat bacon. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

5 " so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

6 " It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

7 " It didn’t matter that we weren’t much alike on paper. That I thought the best of people, and she often assumed the worst. That I was an introvert, and she could work a room like nobody I’d ever seen but her mother. That I was even-tempered, and she was moody and dramatic. That I was no frills, and she was all frills. That I loved football, and she simply tolerated it. The list of differences was endless, but, in the end, none of them mattered. What mattered was that we completely accepted each other. That I had her back, and she had mine. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

8 " Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

9 " I don't love him, period. I didn't love him before this. I cared about him. And I wanted to love him. Maybe I could have grown to love him. But those feelings just weren't there. I liked the idea of him. It was exciting. He was exciting. Too exciting. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

10 " Love that Ritz!” he said. “A lot of folks swear by the Crescent Court, but it has nothing on the Ritz. Such a classic. And do you know that they have their own nightly guacamologist? How divine is that? "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

11 " thinking that so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

12 " Wasn’t there something to be said for working to live, as opposed to living to work? "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

13 " So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

14 " A really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

15 " never had a good gut feeling. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

16 " wasn’t so much that I didn’t have faith in my team, but that I maintained the truest fans always reverted to a doomsday position in the same way that parents always worried about tragedy befalling their children. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

17 " Cremation was definitely the way to go. It was the way I wanted to go, rather than risk the possibility of going out on a bad-hair day. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

18 " Sometimes you get the bead. Sometimes the bear get you. - Coach Carr "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

19 " elated.”) And anytime he had to question someone’s loyalty. "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only

20 " In the end, didn’t everyone in the world at some point delude themselves in their own insular narrative? "

― Emily Giffin , The One & Only