Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

She channels her inner Doris Day and feigns a que será será attitude.

The sandwiches were beautiful pinwheels of color: avocado, tomato and bacon, goat cheese and roasted red pepper, roast beef, cucumber, and horseradish cream.

Anne Tyler is a goddess. I've been reading her since I was at uni and she has only gotten better.

Barrett crumpled the plastic from his sandwich. "I'd never hurt her intentionally." Right, Chess thought. But people rarely hurt each other intentionally.

Yet his mother always stocks the fridge like the offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles are coming for dinner.

Leland had once read an interview with Toni Morrison where the author said she regretted a third of her life.

She's leaving them behind. The agony of this is exquisite. There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love.

Maia's greatest desire when she grows up is to be interesting as well. She knows that to become interesting, she must read, travel, and learn new things.

her jump off the George Washington Bridge. Her other attorney

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence. And yet who among us hasn't been at its mercy?

be a happy hour from 4:00 to 5:30. Caylee, the bartender, makes a Foxy Roxie punch—vodka, champagne, mango nectar, and cranberry. (Cranberry, Harper thinks. Sure to leave a stain.)

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Lizbet is so busy that hours and even days go by when she forgets to be on the lookout for Shelly Carpenter.

It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.

This is one thing he has always loved about his wife: In her heart, she is eternally seventeen.

the mistress of ceremonies, in her

But the world is filled with deceptions and betrayals--nearly every life has one--and yet the sun still rises and sets, the world continues on.

I happen to believe, Chadwick, that even the biggest disasters can be cleaned up, and I'll teach you to believe it too.

That sounds like more of your revisionist history.

It's a journey or it's a battle—you pick what you want to call it—but someday soon, we are going to triumph. We are all going to call ourselves survivors.

Anna isn't impressed by Baker's efforts in the kitchen. In her world, each dawning day is merely another chance to eat pizza.

There are two texts: one from Patrick and one from her mother. Patrick: asdhaosihdkqebrkb. (Butt dial? Or incredibly drunk? Ava doesn't care.)

He liked the atmosphere of skiing - the fire-warmed lodge, the view of a snowy mountainside, the clean air, the drinks - but not the sport itself.

woman out there watching—many of whom idolize Margaret and think of her as a pioneer who broke through very thick, very real glass ceilings—to know that success always comes with a price and that greatness often doesn't allow for balance.

mostly." He had majored in American literature at Fairleigh