Quote Book Saturday, Literary Edition, Again

I just finished Emily Griffin's Love the One You're With, and it is fabulous. Honestly, I couldn't put it down. It's about being married, but never really getting over a former love. You know, that guy. The one you always wonder what if….what if you married him. It really echoes what I often say, love is a choice. This is fluffy chic lit, yes, but it's also heart wrenching, and very real.
"There are people and places and events that lead you to your final relationship, people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it-like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds."
"But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe, making that choice again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all."
"love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."