The Identicals Quotes

“I want you to do what siblings are supposed to do—hate your parents but love each other!”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, than the desires of the human heart.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“It had been the quintessential autumn night, cool but not yet cold, the air smelling of wood smoke and leaves.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Chemistry between two people is a slippery, elusive thing. Love is not transferable.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“ersatz”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Harper prefers winter, when it gets dark at three thirty and is pitch black by the time she finishes her shift. The summer sun reveals too much.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“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, The Identicals

“She is venomous like this because she hurts.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“She marvels at how everything in the world is bearable now, with her sister at her side.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Actually, it’s the other William. William Congreve. And the quotation, Miss Marlowe, is ‘Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, nor hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Harper makes her famous scrambled eggs—famous to her and Billy, anyway. Harper uses double yolks, half-and-half, and a handful of shredded Cheddar. She cooks the eggs slowly over low heat until they are deep golden and creamy.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Harper had been downright thrilled when Brendan had, one day, wandered into Mad Martha’s, ordered a double scoop of shark attack ice cream (vanilla ice cream colored blue, with white chocolate chunks and raspberry swirl, a wonderfully sick joke and very, very popular), and called Harper by name. He”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“It originated in Greek mythology. Alcyone, the daughter of Aeolus, lost her husband, Ceyx, in a shipwreck. She drowned herself in the sea, and they were both transformed into halcyon birds, or kingfishers. When Alcyone made a nest on the beach, the waves threatened to sweep it away, so her father, Aeolus, suspended the winds for seven days, known as the halcyon days—the days when storms do not occur.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“she is left with a heavy mantle of grief, sadness so intense and piercing it should have another name.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, Eleanor thinks, than the desires of the human heart.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“doesn’t enjoy food that is aggressively healthy,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“blotto.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“...value yourself the way I value you.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence. And yet who among us hasn’t been at its mercy?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“They had clinked glasses, and Sadie said, “Kiss me.” Reed could remember feeling repulsed. He had not wanted to kiss his wife. He had not been charmed or lulled by the cozy wintertime domesticity. He could see where things were headed: Sadie would want him to make love to her, and he simply didn’t want to. He took a sip of his wine, hoping alcohol might work its magic, might make him feel something for the woman next to him. It was nothing short of deliverance when, a second later, the house phone rang: Reed was needed at the hospital. Reed had thought of himself as saved. Spared. But Reed wasn’t”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“halcyon days—the days when storms do not occur.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“fatwa”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Why?” she says. “Did my sister call you and tell you to stop? Did Harper call?” “No,” he says. “The problem is my sister. Sadie.” Franklin’s sister, Sadie, is the wife of Dr. Reed Zimmer. Franklin’s sister, Sadie, is the woman who slapped Tabitha and threw champagne in her face. These are the extenuating circumstances. Franklin sits on the edge of the sofa, holding his head in his hands. “I can’t work for you anymore,” he says. “And I can’t see you.” “What?” Tabitha says.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“He knew he was limited, and he hated it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“It’s disorienting to visit the Vineyard in the manner of the lowliest of tourists: the day-tripper.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“She channels her inner Doris Day and feigns a que será será attitude.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Smile and the world smiles with you.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“The Vineyard is a great place to live… until you screw up.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“be a happy hour from 4:00 to 5:30. Caylee, the bartender, makes a Foxy Roxie punch—vodka, champagne, mango nectar, and cranberry. (Cranberry, Harper thinks. Sure to leave a stain.)”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals