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Something Borrowed
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Something Borrowed (2004) (edit title/settings)

by Emily Giffin (Author) (edit contributors)

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Rachel has always been the good girl-until her thirtieth birthday, when her longtime friend Darcy throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiance. Rachel is completely horrified. She pretends it didn't happen, maybe it will all go away-and so... read more

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Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy's fiance, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

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  • “Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.”
    Rachel White
  • “Тhe opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference”
    Rachel's mother
  • “There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.”
    Rachel White
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  • 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.
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  • I am learning that perfection isn’t what matters. In fact, it’s the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
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  • 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 pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.
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  • I think to myself that when you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance.
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  • When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn’t a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.
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  • “Nothing is ever perfect,” my mom says. “It is what you make of it.”
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  • Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice—and lose—is simply pick them up and roll them again.
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  • It’s like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it’s sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they’ve missed in your life. In the world.
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  • It never ceases to amaze me how foolproof the rule is: the person who cares the least (or pretends to) holds the power.
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  • “The world is not that black-and-white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. If you were sleeping with Dex for the sheer thrill of it all, then maybe I’d worry about your karma. But you have feelings for him. It doesn’t make you a bad person.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1-26

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in Something Borrowed. (standard series)

Followed by Something Blue.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Emily Giffin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 031232118X
Page Count: 322

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  • Library of Congress: PS3607.I28 S66
  • Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

adult situations, language

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  • Something Blue
  • Baby Proof

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