Elin Hilderbrand

“If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.”

“What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?”

“I will hold your hand and we will walk across this world, and I will sing to you and our babies, and that will be enough for me.”

“Nick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.”

“All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?”

“To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.”

“It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.”

“Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.”

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.”

“Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.”

“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”

“...of the things I want my daughters to know the greatest of these is love.”

“He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.”

“Forgiveness is a powerful thing.”