Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

She wants to stay right here, with all of those sumptuous plans still in front of her, forever.

Someone once told me that having a child was like having your heart walk around outside of your body.

and asks how the hotel is coming along, Lizbet changes the subject to Sharon's children. (Sharon has no interest in talking about her children; they've just become teenagers.)

We're just a sinner's choir, singing a song for the saints. —Kenny Chesney, "Song for the Saints

As though a sweater had a snag and he pulled at it, or she did, and one by one the stitches came undone until it was a pile of yarn at their feet.

The end of summer was the saddest time of year.

I want my money back!

You know how things like that sometimes happen, Kelley. Come on. That was the year you turned fifty. You were miserable, and so was Mitzi. You were at the Bar all night with your ex-wife, for God's sake.

he could not give her any attention. She complained, he heard her complaining, but he could do nothing about it. He was single-minded, he always had been

Schramsberg sparkling rosé

Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton; Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison; White Fur, by Jardine Libaire; and—oh, baby—Adultery and Other Choices, by Andre Dubus, who might be the writer Vivi loves most.

her faith has morphed greatly over the years—it has both faltered and deepened. She is more certain now than ever that there is something bigger out there, but she is less sure what it is. God? Allah? Karma?

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.

Smile and the world smiles with you.

All your energy. Not on fighting the old. But on building the new. The secret of change.

she might understand that everyone has her baggage and her sad stories. What differentiates people is how they choose to deal with

in that place men found themselves in when they needed bolstering? His sweet and pretty wife wasn't enough? His two healthy kids weren't enough? He needed more, he needed someone to worship him, someone to think he was a hero?

She says, "I want to be treated like someone precious. I want to be someone's beloved. I never feel that way with you, and it dawned on me at some point today that I'm never going to feel that way with you, ever.

Lindsay Lohan? Patrick thinks. He's relieved Bart has joined the Marines. Anyone who publicly announces himself a fan of Lindsay Lohan needs straightening out.

Her heart is beating so fast she doesn't need the Peloton, but she powers out a forty-five-minute HIIT and Hills ride with Tunde anyway.

the way Adrienne's mother had taught her eighty-two years earlier.

when she saw Addison was concern, weariness, a dash of contempt, a dash of pride, a dash of hope.

There was nothing attractive about a woman of a certain age taking a nap.

be missing her. He had to be thinking