What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?
Elin HilderbrandIf everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.
Elin HilderbrandNick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.
Elin HilderbrandI will hold your hand and we will walk across this world, and I will sing to you and our babies, and that will be enough for me.
Elin HilderbrandHowever, deep down, Brenda suspected that it was the stolen nature of those two hours that transformed them. She was supposed to be somewhere else... She had set aside those two hours - three, if you counted the driving - to be of service to her sister. The fact that Vicki had unexpectedly granted her leave gave those two hours a rarefied quality. What Brenda had thought was, I'd better not waste them. And, like magic, the words had come. The pages had filled.
Elin HilderbrandShe waved good-bye and hurried down the street towards her family's house, thinking again that some nights had good karma and some nights were cursed, and for a few moments, tonight had seemed like the former, but it had ended up the latter.
Elin HilderbrandShe could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime when they were all together without the lights shining on them.
Elin HilderbrandAnd Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.
Elin HilderbrandAnd here," she said. "Let me fix your tie." She tugged on his bow tie, her eyes appraising him, and he basked in it. He had left his tie crooked on purpose, just so she could straighten it.
Elin HilderbrandPerfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.
Elin HilderbrandMots clés happiness
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