Elin Hilderbrand quotes:

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer for poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

I am a summer person.

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.