The Island Quotes

“...of the things I want my daughters to know the greatest of these is love.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“I 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 Hilderbrand, The Island

“Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“Nick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“She had thought that 'depression' would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands. She couldn't stop thinking; she couldn't find her way free from apprehension.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“You just didn’t know what life was going to hand you. You didn’t know what love you would find, what love would be snatched away.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“There was a memory for everything, India realized; it was pointless to try to escape the memories.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“She [Tate] wanted to swim but hadn't brought her suit. She considered jumping in her shorts and T-shirt – but she was determined, from this point forward, to act like a grown woman. Not a woman like Anita Fullin or like Chess or like her mother or like Aunt India – but like the woman that was inside herself.

Then she thought, the grown woman inside me is hot and sticky. And she jumped in.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“eyes were swollen shut into slits. She was scratching”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“Drama followed Chess around like a smell. Some people, Tate had learned, were like that, and it was for people like her to sit and watch the show.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“She had thought that “depression” would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“Barrett crumpled the plastic from his sandwich. “I’d never hurt her intentionally.” Right, Chess thought. But people rarely hurt each other intentionally.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“There was nothing attractive about a woman of a certain age taking a nap.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“That sounds like more of your revisionist history.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“Then, that night at dinner—we were at a steak house—Grant got up from the table and I thought he’d gone to the men’s room, but he never returned. So Tate and I finished up, I paid the bill, and we went to find him. He was in the bar, of course, where there was a television. He was talking to a complete stranger about the Giants’ chance the next day against the Panthers.” “That sounds like Grant,” India said. “It was Grant, is Grant. But it hurt. He loved us, but he didn’t like us.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“The giddy, head-over-heels infatuation faded; it mellowed into something else. You got married, then divorced. Or your husband killed himself. Or your brain synapses became encased in gooey plaque and you started putting the frying pan in the icebox instead of in the cabinet where it belonged.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“she”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island

“be missing her. He had to be thinking”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Island