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

About Elin Hilderbrand

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Perfect Couple

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Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Island

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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

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in Winter Storms

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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

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Beyond the quest for financial security and personal comfort, what, if anything, are we committed to?

—Nathan McCall

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There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

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Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

—Sean Beaudoin in You Killed Wesley Payne

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People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.

—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

—Woody Allen

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History

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