What Happens in Paradise Quotes

“What am I going to do now? Then I realized this was the perfect time to start journaling again. Because if you don’t write down what happens in a day, you forget—and that day becomes a blur and that blur becomes your life.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“Love is messy and complicated and unfair.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“In even the bleakest situations, there’s usually some good to be salvaged.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“everyone has her baggage and her sad stories. What differentiates people is how they choose to deal with them.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“She gazes over at baby Genevieve, who is now asleep in Kevin’s arms, and thinks, I really don’t have any words of advice at all. The world is an endlessly confounding place.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“Life gave me another chance to be happy. Only an idiot would say no to that out of fear.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“Lust is great in the bedroom, but Like is better at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“Lust is great in the bedroom, but like is better at breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“Does he think about us? I wonder. Or does he have a vault in his brain where he locks us, and all the feelings he has for us, away?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“I hope he’s happy—because if he’s not happy, then what’s the point of staying with her?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“She still loves him but she doesn’t trust him and she doesn’t trust herself, and sometimes she thinks she went back to him only because it was comfortable and familiar,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“Did two good people do something they knew was wrong because there was some kind of magical chemistry involved? Or was it plain old human fallibility, weakness in the face of temptation?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“...I really don't have any words of advice at all. The world is an endlessly confounding place.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“Some women, Ava realizes, would crumple in a pile and feel sorry for themselves, but not Jennifer. Jennifer puts on her gnome sweater.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“moved”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“love of one’s child is the most powerful love there is, and he’s always been terrified of it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“hall. In the kitchen, he takes two shot glasses out of the cabinet and brings his trusty bottle of eighteen-year-old Flor de Caña—useful in most emergencies—down from the shelf.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“coming”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“Against Terror to be over. Osama bin Laden had been”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“vinaigrette,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll

“aspiring fashionista, a dedicated jogger, a world explorer, an enthusiastic foodie, and a grateful three-year”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“do”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“she might understand that everyone has her baggage and her sad stories. What differentiates people is how they choose to deal with”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“Life gave me another chance to be happy. Only an idiot”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“Sex is ephemeral. Once it’s over, it’s over. Sex is not a lasting connection; it’s only real while it’s happening. It’s not love.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“had him pegged as one kind of person—he had just ended his second term on the Iowa City school board; he was encouraging his mother, Milly, to move into a retirement community but she was having none of it—he would pull out a surprise. Like the way he stroked behind my knee in a spot so sweet and sensitive, I had a hard time concentrating. We anchored off of Little Cinnamon because the cliff above was undeveloped so no one would be spying on us with binoculars”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat, hot asphalt, and a one-night stand.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise

“This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise