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

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in Winter Storms

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

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

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

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summerland

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

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

—Edmund Hillary

Tell him he was my greatest adventure. Tell him I love him.

—Fisher Amelie in Vain

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

—W. Somerset Maugham

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

—Elon Musk

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

—Mae West