Elin Hilderbrand

About

Elin Hilderbrand (born July 17, 1969) is an American writer of mystery and romance. Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket, where she resides. In 2019, New York magazine called her "the queen of beach reads".

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Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

Summer does something to the brain. It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summer People

summer brain

Some people don't like being happy. They're much more comfortable when they have a problem.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Beach Club

happiness problems comfort

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there…haunting you. The what-ifs.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Matchmaker

regret haunting what-ifs

That's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Beautiful Day

Nobody knows where it comes from, and nobody knows where it goes. Love doesn't make sense most of the time and that's what's so wonderful about it.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Beach Club

love future origins wonderful

He'd learned that when you love someone purely enough, all you wanted was for that person to be happy.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summerland

love others happiness

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in Beautiful Day

life present absence fondness

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.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Identicals

children pain loss

When you're in love, every day is like a present you get to open.

—Elin Hilderbrand in Winter Storms

love present

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summerland

death adventure

Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Island

perfection happiness

The charitable acts that count the most are those done without anyone knowing.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Perfect Couple

knowledge humility charity secrecy

Books

Elin Hilderbrand has the following books quoted on Quodid: