Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

if you want a terrific not-crowded beach, drive out to Miacomet Golf Course, but just before you reach the clubhouse, take a right onto the dirt road that leads past the big antenna.

Weather is a physical manifestation of the earth's power.

Now, however, he understands how liberating it is to get intoxicated while the sun is out. It feels decadent in the best possible way. The world seems alternately kind, forgiving, absurd, and hilarious. "You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning," he says to Chris and Mike. "Am I right?

Whereas once Marguerite had been obsessed with food- with heirloom tomatoes and lamb shanks and farmhouse cheeses, and fish still flopping on the counter, and eggs and chocolate and black truffles and foie gras and rare white nectarines- now the only thing that gave her genuine pleasure was reading.

an education makes you good company for yourself!)

The thing I love best about reading fiction is that it gives you a way to connect the experiences of your own life to the larger world

Raiul era faptul ca ii avea pe toti acolo, langa ea.

Raiul era faptul c? îi avea pe toÈ›i acolo, lâng? ea.

She had thought that "depression" would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands.

Hollis leaves Brooke's text to bleed out.

halcyon days—the days when storms do not occur.

She chastised herself and considered calling back, but in the end she had the good sense to return to reading Stephen Crane.

sense the story like an approaching storm

What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude. Cooper In the summer of 2023, Cooper Blessing is fifty-six years old, and when he gets down on one knee on the sidewalk in front of the Red Star Bar & Grill in Fells Point, he's momentarily concerned that he'll need help getting back up.

If I had stayed on Nantucket in 1993 instead of going home…my sister's life, my friend Jake's life, and my friend Fray's life all would have been different.

There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, Eleanor thinks, than the desires of the human heart.

Achieving is the most important thing to you. It's more important than love, Bess said when she was fifteen years old. And wow—Ursula had felt that comment like a slap to the face. Bess has mellowed as she's gotten

All Ursula can come up with is that when people were alone in the voting booth, they couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman. The problem wasn't Ursula. It was American society. Of course Ursula harbored plenty of private fears

She hadn't seemed maternal enough, or like a devoted-enough wife. So much more was expected of a female candidate.

It's disorienting to visit the Vineyard in the manner of the lowliest of tourists: the day-tripper.

anyone. It takes an extraordinary person to handle this kind of loss as graciously as you are." At these words, Ursula sat up and stretched

The Blue Book Time and again I'm asked for recommendations of must-do's while visiting Nantucket. As Lizbet Keaton says in this novel, "The world needs a Nantucket guidebook written by an island

He knew he was limited, and he hated it.

I want to brush my teeth," she said. Before she knew what was happening, Thatcher leaned over and kissed her. Very quickly, very softly. "You're fine," he said. "I detect a trace of vinaigrette, but it's really very pleasant." He held the flute out to her, and as it gave her something to do other than fall over backward, she accepted it.