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

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

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

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

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Beach Club

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summer People

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

—Daphne du Maurier in Frenchman's Creek

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in The Beach Club

The secret to happiness… be satisfied and be grateful.

—Mitch Albom in Have a Little Faith

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

—Thomas Szasz

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

—Hobart Brown