The Perfect Couple Quotes

“The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“The moment their eyes meet, the moment their hands touch. That certainty. That recognition. You. You are the one. This is what it feels like. Nothing, as it turns out, can take the place of love.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“June and July are foggy months. In the early summer on Nantucket, warm moist air flows over the colder water. The moist air cools to its dew point and a cloud forms at the water's surface. This is fog.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“It’s a journey or it’s a battle—you pick what you want to call it—but someday soon, we are going to triumph. We are all going to call ourselves survivors.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“BAD PLANNING ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“sadness is nothing a little Veuve Clicquot can’t fix.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“English”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“She is our treasure, our hope, our light, and our warmth. She is our legacy. Here’s to the two of you and your life together.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Also, she doesn't want to hear anyone else's inspiring story about a sister-in-law who went through exactly the same thing and is now running ultramarathons. Celeste doesn't mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one's story offers hope.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“And so to you, Benjamin Winbury, I say from the heart: Take care of our little girl. She is our treasure, our hope, our light, and our warmth. She is our legacy. Here’s to the two of you and your life together.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“After a few moments pass, she tiptoes over to pick up the paper. It says: In case you have any doubts, I'm in love with you.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“It's my business to know the secrets of every universe”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Fish has the atmosphere of a dive bar, but there are yards of crushed ice upon which rest piles and piles of oysters. The Yankees game is on TV. The bartender wears a T-shirt that says SEX, DRUGS, AND LOBSTER ROLL.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“No problem,” Celeste says. She has a new book—Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta—and she looks forward to the time alone. It’s not supposed to be this way, she knows.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“The woman who works at the station next to Lola’s, a sixty-year-old Nantucket native named Mary Ellen Cahill, has a sign in front of her computer terminal that says: BAD PLANNING ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“She reads the short stories on her commute to work and by the end of the week, she’s finished and she asks Benji for another book. He gives her The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. She loves it so much she reads it any chance she can get. She reads Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Celeste doesn’t mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one’s story offers hope. Either Karen will survive the cancer or it will metastasize and she will succumb to it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Robin had grown up in Opelika, Alabama, and had started college at Auburn”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“She doesn’t do this enough, she realizes. Tag always gets the worst of her: her laser focus, her inflexibility, her condescension, her acerbic tongue. She used to love that she could be herself in front of him, but now it feels like all he gets is the negative, unpleasant, unflattering aspects of Greer Garrison; the sweet, gentle, caring parts of her she saves for others—”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“And man, nothing on this earth—and I mean nothing—prepares you for how much you love your kids. Am I right?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Things that seem too good to be true usually are.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“if one wants to communicate with Millennials, one must abandon old-fashioned notions like expecting to speak on the phone.)”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. She loves it so much she reads it any chance she can get. She reads Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one’s story offers hope.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“There’s no dollar sign on peace of mind,’ ” he said. “ ‘This I’ve come to know.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Do you think maybe Merritt was involved with someone who was attending the wedding and that’s why she didn’t bring a date?” “Can I please use the ladies’ room?” Abby asks.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

“Viewed from a distance, Nantucket Island is everything Karen Otis dreamed it would be: tasteful, charming, nautical, classic. The ferry passes inside a stone jetty, and Karen squeezes Bruce’s hand to let him know she would like to stand and walk the few feet to the railing now. Bruce places an arm across Karen’s back and eases her up out of her seat. He’s not a big man but he’s strong. He was the Pennsylvania state champion wrestler at 142 pounds in 1984. Karen first set eyes on him sitting in the Easton Area High School pool balcony. She was swimming the butterfly leg for the varsity relay team, which routinely practiced during lunch, and when she climbed out of the water, she spied Bruce, dressed in sweatpants and a hooded sweatshirt, staring at an orange he held in his hands”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple