The Five-Star Weekend Quotes

“You can be more than one kind of person in your life,” he says.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“The thing I love best about reading fiction is that it gives you a way to connect the experiences of your own life to the larger world.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“cilantro-and-lime-marinated swordfish with avocado sauce, a summer squash tart with goat cheese and mint, a large green salad, and homemade baguettes with black pepper butter that, yes, her mother churned herself like a pioneer woman. This will be followed by peach cobbler with a hot sugar crust topped with fresh whipped cream, and tiny squares of Japanese chocolate.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“There was the golden age, the years our children were nine, ten, eleven. Fourth and fifth grade....of course you never realize it's the golden age until it's over.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“She hangs up just as a text from Sofia comes in. Are you on the phone with Isaac? A chill rolls up Caroline’s spine. The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“I may not arrive at a place of grace right away—the pain of the betrayal is still new, shocking—but I will get there eventually, and until then, I’m willing to play through.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“There’s no term Dru-Ann loathes more than safe space. First of all, it’s a complete fantasy; no space in life is safe unless you live in bubble wrap. People will disagree with you; people will attack you; people will lie right to your face! In Dru-Ann’s line of work, every single day is a competition—someone wins, a lot of people lose. There is no safety.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“I want to go back, she thinks. Back to the days of sleepovers and fancy birthday breakfasts.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Hollis glides her cart over to the cheese case, where she chooses Taleggio and a clothbound cheddar (five-star cheese; Lily approves!), fancy crackers, a couple sticks of Italian salami, Marcona almonds, a can of salt-and-pepper Virginia peanuts (they’re ridiculously addictive), and Alfonso olives.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“(It pains Ethan to pay $140 for a bottle of wine when he orders it for his liquor store, Hatch’s, for $28 a bottle, but he knows at the Galley, you’re really paying for the view.)”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“This happens all the time. People always think the third margarita is a good idea, and they’re always wrong.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“(Motherhood, she has come to realize, requires a lot of math: How much space is enough; how much is too much?)”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Jack chuckles. “You can be more than one kind of person in your life,” he says. “But I’ve always been a person who loves Hollis Shaw.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“table.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“as soft as a shoe full of shit.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“she misses him the way she’d miss hot running water or a second pillow: She’ll survive”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“To Caroline, the Five-Star Weekend sounds like some kind of internet challenge for boomers. “What sort of help do you want from me?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“so when Frank Sinatra comes over, he can make himself a martini.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Caroline paces the master bedroom like a wild animal in a cage”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“the”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“I wanna go to college for the rest of my life.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“It’s the ocean,” Dru-Ann deadpans. “It makes everything better.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“I have a Peloton. And I’ll get your tequila. And organic limes.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Of course you never realize it’s the golden age until it’s over.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“I don’t have much to hold on to now that he’s dead except my memories… and I’m not sure if you’ve experienced this, but memories lose their clarity with time. I find myself wondering, Did that really happen?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend