The Beach Club Quotes

“Some people don’t like being happy. They’re much more comfortable when they have a problem.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“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, The Beach Club

“We have to hope. When I’m dying and ready to go, you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to hope with all my heart. And then I’m going to let go. Hope I don’t disappear. Hope I land somewhere safely.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“The greatest risk there is. The risk of parenthood. You're a mother.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“aplomb.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“Her life would be a different shape, different colors. Many hours could be wasted this way: pondering the way things might have been.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“He was the bookish type, with soft hands, an estate-planning lawyer. The type that wasn’t good with emergencies of the physical kind.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“Some days I think I’m old and wise, and other days just old.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“Oh, yes, our two weddings. We had a church wedding when Maximilian returned. That was a waste of my father’s money. We were already married!”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“He was a good person, and less like a lawyer than anybody Mack had met on the East Coast, where even men who weren’t lawyers acted like lawyers.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“days in the dark by myself. We’re engaged,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“That was the darnedest thing about sitting down as an old woman—getting comfortable and looking good were nearly impossible. “You’ve”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“mostly.” He had majored in American literature at Fairleigh”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“and”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“But the road was still sunny, the gulls cried out. Neil was gone, and for a second, Jem felt something he thought might be peace.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club

“monochromatic”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club