Elin Hilderbrand

Forgiveness is a powerful thing.

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

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

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.

All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?

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

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.

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.