Elin Hilderbrand Quotes

With this in mind, Ava tells herself to be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it was over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

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Every life contains a novel.

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I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.

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What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?

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

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She had thought that 'depression' would be like sitting in a rocking chair and not being able to make it move. She had thought it would descend over her like a fog, turning things fuzzy, coloring them gray. But depression was active, it paced back and forth wringing its hands. She couldn't stop thinking; she couldn't find her way free from apprehension.

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Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

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Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

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One is never too young for fine literature . . .

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...Every life contains a novel.

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