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“Forgiveness is a powerful thing.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Then Phoebe came to the underlined verses. My life with you has been beyond beyond/And there’s nothing beyond it I’m seeking/I wouldn’t mind being dead/If I could still be with you.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“She wanted to unzip her body and step out of it. She wanted to be attached to a machine that would erase her memory, obliterate her guilt, wipe her clean.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Elderhostel.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Or it was grief. Which, like every other human emotion, revealed itself in ways that made sense and ways that didn’t.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“it was the most incredible wine Delilah had ever tasted. It was like drinking velvet. It was like drinking the blood of your one true love.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“She craved a small space of her own, a hole in the wall, a hiding place like Anne Frank’s where the Nazis wouldn’t find her. She was very far away from home, and yet she felt exposed and obvious, as though she had a camera trained on her.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“There was a small graveside funeral, at which Tess and Greg buried a coffin the size of a shoebox. It was all too sad and too nebulous for anyone to handle; it was the loss of a life none of them had known, and yet this somehow made it worse.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Madame Bovary, Deliverance, A Room with a View, The Ice Storm, The Corrections, A Handmaid’s Tale, A Thousand Acres, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Emperor’s Children, Bel Canto—God, the list was endless. She picked a pile to start with: I Cannot Get You Close Enough, Prep, The Brambles, Beautiful Children, all from the staff-favorites shelf.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“She not only drank the wine, she savored it the way it was meant to be savored—mouthful by mouthful, over the tongue, eyes fluttering.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“I Cannot Get You Close Enough, Prep, The Brambles, Beautiful Children,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Madame Bovary, Deliverance, A Room with a View, The Ice Storm, The Corrections, A Handmaid’s Tale, A Thousand Acres, Bastard Out of Carolina, The Emperor’s Children, Bel Canto”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“Andrea ripped her paperback in half and gave Delilah the beginning while she finished the end.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“ADDISON Are you going to tell him? Are you going to tell him you love me? I’m afraid. I’m afraid you won’t get it. The $9.2 million deal closed without a hitch, and Wheeler Realty received a check for $368,000, half of which went into Addison’s pocket. Normally this would have been cause for celebration (corporate and personal), but Addison was distracted. What to do with Tess’s cell phone? He had flat-out lied to the Chief. Addison was by no means an honest person—he was a real estate agent, after all, prone to stretching the truth, and he had for six months concealed his affair with Tess. But something about looking Ed Kapenash in the eye and flat-out lying about Tess’s phone instilled”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“they”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“he could not give her any attention. She complained, he heard her complaining, but he could do nothing about it. He was single-minded, he always had been,”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“As though a sweater had a snag and he pulled at it, or she did, and one by one the stitches came undone until it was a pile of yarn at their feet.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“when she saw Addison was concern, weariness, a dash of contempt, a dash of pride, a dash of hope.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“in that place men found themselves in when they needed bolstering? His sweet and pretty wife wasn’t enough? His two healthy kids weren’t enough? He needed more, he needed someone to worship him, someone to think he was a hero?”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“He liked the atmosphere of skiing - the fire-warmed lodge, the view of a snowy mountainside, the clean air, the drinks - but not the sport itself.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“in the sweltering attic, and”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“fish tacos from a twelve-year-old boy and his mother. These tacos remained the best thing Delilah had ever eaten. The fish was snapper, caught in the early morning by the husband/father and marinated in oil, lime juice, garlic, and chiles, and then grilled on a hibachi that was attached to the cart. The grilled fish was wrapped in a handmade tortilla with fresh tomato, chopped iceberg, chunks of creamy avocado, crumbled white cheese that had no name other than queso, and the whole thing was drizzled with a tangy lime crema. The”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“own life—he just wished it coincided more neatly with his life as”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways

“in the Chief’s ears. He and Phoebe had danced awfully close to the band’s brass section. “Okay, I have to go in to work. Please don’t wake your mother. Will you be around when the twins get home?â€� “Um,â€� Kacy said. “I guess?â€� April Peck, the Chief thought. Sweet Jesus. “I have to go,â€� he said. He was unwashed, unshaven, in his street clothes, and he had to make do with the truly atrocious coffee that Molly made for the station. These were all bad omens. And somehow he had to make room in his mind for Phoebe’s”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Castaways