Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

One of the best feelings in the world was finding something you were sure you'd lost forever.

I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.

And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

hate was not the opposite of love. Indifference was the opposite of love

The line that finally makes Jessie burst into sobs is Despite everything, I believe all people are good at heart.

All a mother wants, Margot, is for her children to be happy. And that may take different forms at different times.

Jack chuckles. "You can be more than one kind of person in your life," he says. "But I've always been a person who loves Hollis Shaw.

Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.

This house didn't feel like poverty, just like a house owned by white people who'd stopped caring.

Secrets become lies, and lies end up destroying you and everyone you care about.

She loved him, and she knew he loved her, but come on—if everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.

He will get it all out—his love, his denial, his shame, his rage, his sadness, his grief. And then, once he's an empty vessel, he can accept his heartbreak, accept himself, and start to heal. When

She wasn't sure if they were telling her the truth; sometimes they told her things to see if she was gullible enough to believe them.

Hard things are hard.

She was conscious of being alive and being present: a clear night, a golden beach, good food.

Jake asks if Mallory has any questions. Well, yes, she does: How is anyone expected to devote eighteen years to raising a child and then, one day, just leave him in an unfamiliar place among strangers twelve hundred miles from home?

Hope had been in the NICU for a week before she was named. The name her parents had picked out was Allison—Allegra and Allison, for nauseating twin symmetry—but after all that transpired, they changed their minds and decided to call her Hope, no explanation needed. She was a survivor, an underdog who had prevailed;

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

There was a memory for everything, India realized; it was pointless to try to escape the memories.

Bad things can happen, terrible things. You can lose the people you love the most; you can lose homes, cars, antiques, hand-knotted silk rugs that cost five figures; you can discover that the very life you're living is a terrific lie. And despite this, despite all this, the sun will continue to rise.

The shoes had come to define him as he proceeded to break every sprinting record at New Bedford High School and other high schools across the Commonwealth, earning himself the nickname Fast Eddie.

how to score the game: love, fifteen, thirty, forty, game. Six games wins a set, but you have to win by two games. Two sets wins a match for women, three for men.

Ten, she decided, was the perfect age for a boy. J.D. did not need the constant caretaking that the other kids needed, but his heart and mind were still those of a child.

Does he think about us? I wonder. Or does he have a vault in his brain where he locks us, and all the feelings he has for us, away?