Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

Satisfaction was not to be gained from finishing the task; satisfaction was to be gained from the process.

What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude.

We didn't choose love; it chose us, right or wrong—and realizing this, for Brenda, was a kind of answered prayer. Love was all that mattered.

They were taught in school that fear often derives from ignorance. Once you understand a situation, it becomes far less intimidating.

Some women, Ava realizes, would crumple in a pile and feel sorry for themselves, but not Jennifer. Jennifer puts on her gnome sweater.

love of one's child is the most powerful love there is, and he's always been terrified of it.

She is our treasure, our hope, our light, and our warmth. She is our legacy. Here's to the two of you and your life together.

Like Virginia Woolf said, every woman writer needs five hundred pounds a year and a room of one's own.

She is venomous like this because she hurts.

I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.

The Greydon House is the new hot spot on Nantucket; Bart remembers when it was his dentist's office. It has been reimagined as a hotel and fine restaurant. The bar is dark paneled, the lighting is low, the furniture is ornate, and the overall effect

This is foxhole religion at its most basic. The only person who wants the soldier to live more than the soldier himself is the soldier's mother.

melted milk chocolate; it's a roaring fire on a snowy night; it's a double rainbow; the green-glass barrel of a wave; the first sip of ice-cold champagne. And then…he arrives

Eddie has long joked that the two most useful backgrounds for a real estate broker are psychology and elementary education.

Most people think real estate is a business about property and therefore money, but Eddie would argue that real estate is a business about people. And about money.

quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

You need to choose bravery over shame," Leanne says. "Humility over pride.

I hope he's happy—because if he's not happy, then what's the point of staying with her?

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

What I'd really like is a teaspoon of white sugar in my regular Lipton tea. Not honey, not agave, not raw organic turbinado. Just good old white processed sugar." "Does Mrs. Quinn keep something as toxic as that in the house?" Lara asks.

compassion, thoughtful opinions. He admits when he's wrong; he admits when he doesn't know. This is why their friendship has lasted while so many others have fallen away.

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

How is it we don't create new words when we see something that astonishes us? Why don't we make up new words for the things that make us feel new?

She yearned to be left alone with her interior life rather than to explain it.