The Hotel Nantucket Quotes

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“When deep August arrives, a certain melancholy sets in, the kind people get on a Sunday afternoon.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“I’ve always thought of mosaic as this big metaphor for my life,” she says. “All these jagged, incongruous pieces…” She holds up a small shard of milky jade-green glass. “These are like the things that happen to you. But if it’s laid out a certain way and if you take a step back from it, it makes sense.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“The Fifth Key Lizbet Keaton’s Breakup Playlist “Good 4 U”—Olivia Rodrigo “All Too Well” (Taylor’s version)—Taylor Swift “If Looks Could Kill”—Heart “You Oughta Know”—Alanis Morissette “Far Behind”—Social Distortion “Somebody That I Used to Know”—Gotye “Marvin’s Room”—Drake “Another You”—Elle King “Gives You Hell”— The All-American Rejects “Kiss This”—The Struts “Save It for a Rainy Day”—Kenny Chesney “I Don’t Wanna Be in Love”—Good Charlotte “Best of You”—Foo Fighters “Rehab”—Rihanna “Better Now”—Post Malone “Forget You”—CeeLo Green “Salt”—Ava Max “Go Your Own Way”—Fleetwood Mac “Since U Been Gone”—Kelly Clarkson “Praying”—Kesha”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“But the secret to success for any bathroom,” Lizbet says to Jill, “isn’t how it looks; it’s how it makes the guest look.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“She spent seventy-seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“It’s none of my business,” Magda says. “I was just curious. I happen to believe, Chadwick, that even the biggest disasters can be cleaned up, and I’ll teach you to believe it too.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“Yet his mother always stocks the fridge like the offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles are coming for dinner.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“also get a day pass for $60). Most rental vehicles available on Nantucket come with these stickers. Before you drive onto the beach, you must let the air out of your tires down to 15 pounds (you can go lower for Great Point—there are two air hoses just past the guardhouse to refill them when you’re heading back to civilization). Here are my thoughts on drive-on beaches: I love them. This love intensified when I had children. Instead of schlepping all of our stuff from whatever parking spot I happened to find (if I found a parking spot—because when you have kids, it’s challenging to get out of the house in a timely fashion), I just pulled onto the beach and all of their stuff was right there in the back of the car. There were years when the kids napped in the car, windows wide open. There were years when the kids climbed on the car (I had”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“With all the advances in medicine and technology, why has someone not created a pill that cures heartbreak? Emotional penicillin. Why has someone not invented software that will sweep all traces of your ex out of your brain or an app that eliminates unrequited love?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. She hangs”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“Hepburnnantucket.com;”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“Millyandgrace.com”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“would like a Reuben from Walter’s delivered to her room”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. She”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“Hotels aren’t about rooms. They aren’t about amenities. They’re about people.” The people who work at the Nantucket Hotel and Resort are some of the very finest in the hospitality industry.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“If Magda were going to lead by example and share something, it might have been this: She’s thrilled to be working again. Her tidy and modest routine had grown dull; she was bored and more than once she had checked flights back to St. Thomas. She’d retired from cruise ships for good but there was a new resort opening on Lovango Cay and she thought she might head up housekeeping there. But then she’d heard from Xavier, who told her what he’d done—bought a hotel, sight unseen, on the island where she now lives.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“Alessandra’s”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“suddenly”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“spur”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“estate”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“She is a pineapple: standing tall, wearing a crown, and sweet on the inside!”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“He uses air quotes, which makes him seem like such a boomer. “I appreciate it.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“West Hartford”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“I’m a numbers guy. I was a math major at UConn back in the day.” He pumps a fist. “Go Huskies!”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“I’ve always thought of mosaic as this big metaphor for my life,” she says. “All these jagged, incongruous pieces…” She holds up a small shard of milky jade-green glass. “These are like the things that happen to you. But if it’s laid out a certain way and if you take a step back from it, it makes sense.” Edie”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket

“and asks how the hotel is coming along, Lizbet changes the subject to Sharon’s children. (Sharon has no interest in talking about her children; they’ve just become teenagers.)”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Hotel Nantucket