Elin Hilderbrand

“Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

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

— Elin Hilderbrand

“The Greydon House is the new hot spot on Nantucket; Bart remembers when it was his dentist’s office. It has been reimagined…

— Elin Hilderbrand

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

— Elin Hilderbrand

I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“Summer does something to the brain, " Beth said. "It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers ”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in…

— Elin Hilderbrand

The world needs voices that are positive and grateful, and that can be me.

— Elin Hilderbrand

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I consider reading to be part of my job.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I am a summer person.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing you raised a hero.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“I love you in a way that is so powerful it lifts me up, it propels me forward. You propel me forward.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

— Elin Hilderbrand

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I jog every day for seven to eight miles a day.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“She [Tate] wanted to swim but hadn't brought her suit. She considered jumping in her shorts and T-shirt – but she was…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“be a happy hour from 4:00 to 5:30. Caylee, the bartender, makes a Foxy Roxie punch—vodka, champagne, mango nectar, and cranberry. (Cranberry,…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren’t present…

— Elin Hilderbrand

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“Margaret's favorite kind of news story is - would anyone believe this? - the weather. The dull, the prosaic, the default I-have-nothing-else-to-talk-about-so-let's-talk-about-the-weather…

— Elin Hilderbrand

“All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken…

— Elin Hilderbrand

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

— Elin Hilderbrand