Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

She needs someone to love her, clothe her, feed her, teach her right from wrong, someone to set limits and provide opportunities, someone to believe in her and be her champion.

She knew she should be happy the girls were outside riding their very expensive horses. Girls who rode became interested in boys and makeup and cigarettes much later than their nonriding counterparts.

Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Also, she doesn't want to hear anyone else's inspiring story about a sister-in-law who went through exactly the same thing and is now running ultramarathons. Celeste doesn't mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one's story offers hope.

This was Antonio's interpretation of "anything": succulent black olives, sun-dried tomatoes and marinated artichokes, three kinds of salami, tiny balls of fresh mozzarella, roasted cherry tomatoes, some kind of creamy eggplant dip that made her swoon, and a basket of warm focaccia.

Cash loves his brother, in theory. In practice, he can't stand the guy.

She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.

Anyone can fall in love, but not just anyone can achieve forgiveness and acceptance and real, deep respect for his or her former partner the way these two have.

You just didn't know what life was going to hand you. You didn't know what love you would find, what love would be snatched away.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind.The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —Henry James

She wanted to unzip her body and step out of it. She wanted to be attached to a machine that would erase her memory, obliterate her guilt, wipe her clean.

Underneath, they have chosen a Camus quote: In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow.

The special was a tomato salad with bacon, basil, and blue cheese. It was a work of art. Fiona had found a rainbow of heirloom tomatoes- red, orange, yellow, green, purple, yellow with green stripes- and she stacked them on the plate in a tower as colorful as children's blocks.

I really don't have any words of advice at all . The world is an endlessly confounding place.

She hangs up just as a text from Sofia comes in. Are you on the phone with Isaac? A chill rolls up Caroline's spine. The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.

There's a line at the end of the song that goes 'Golden girl, I'll keep you forever.' And that was the jumping-off point for my own song. Vivi was my golden girl. She was the one I would hold above all others." He looks at Willa. "To this day, that's true.

Then Phoebe came to the underlined verses. My life with you has been beyond beyond/And there's nothing beyond it I'm seeking/I wouldn't mind being dead/If I could still be with you.

We have to hope. When I'm dying and ready to go, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to hope with all my heart. And then I'm going to let go. Hope I don't disappear. Hope I land somewhere safely.

Even if Willa lives to be a hundred and is surrounded by children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she will still miss her mother. So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

She didn't know how any woman anywhere conducted an affair without having the ear of a best friend.

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

figures. PJ was in the middle, Trish and Harrison were to PJ's right, and Potter and Ava were to PJ's left. All of the figures were holding hands and the sun was shining above them. The drawing was more than Ava