The Five-Star Weekend Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.”
― 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

“You can be more than one kind of person in your life,” he says.”
― 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

“Caroline has romanticized the memories of her father because he’s gone. But Hollis was the one who showed up with Caroline’s forgotten flute case; Hollis was the one with a regular spot at Sprague Fields during Caroline’s soccer games. Hollis took Caroline on her college visits and spent six hours at Copley Place helping Caroline shop for a cotillion dress. Hollis kept up with the friend drama, the boy drama, the academic drama. Hollis was her every day. Hollis was her unconditional. How had Hollis known how to be a mom? Thinking about it now, Caroline finds it sort of amazing.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“. The Itinerary Friday 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.: Arrivals 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.: Cocktail hour/hors d’oeuvres 7:00 p.m.: Dinner on the deck Saturday 8:00 a.m.: Yoga by the pool/continental breakfast 10:00 a.m. to noon: Shopping in town Noon to 5:00 p.m.: Beach, lunch, pool 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.: Get ready for dinner; cocktails and snacks 7:30 p.m.: Dinner at Nautilus (suggested colors: black and/or white) 10:00 p.m.: Maxxtone at the Chicken Box! Sunday Free morning, continental breakfast Noon: Lunch at Galley Beach (suggested colors: hot pink or orange) 2:00 p.m.: Sail aboard Endeavor 7:00 p.m.: Pizza party 8:30 p.m.: Ice cream truck and fireworks on the beach Monday Departures”
― 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

“There won’t be any hidden truths behind a bunch of olds eating lobster rolls, wearing capri pants, and quoting Sixteen Candles. That much is for sure.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until age twenty-five. Caroline can’t be blamed; she’s still growing. But Hollis wants to cry out: You’re hurting me. This will be easier to get through if we bond together!”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Matthew did his doctor’s trick of appearing to listen but not, which was how Hollis knew he wasn’t engaged; he was just waiting for her to be done, which was equal parts infuriating and disheartening”
― 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

“She has been awful to her mother. She has been narcissistic, sarcastic, mean.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Dru-Ann thinks, Your generation is both fragile and entitled, and no one is allowed to call you on it because you have been given the power to ruin a person’s career by pushing a few buttons.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“The woman sitting next to Gigi has ordered a plate of French fries and an entire bottle of champagne just for herself. Not all superheroes wear capes, Gigi thinks.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“She’s going to meet her dead lover’s wife.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“That’s what the olds do, Caroline thinks. They sing and dance to old music.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“sister-grandmothers—Tatum the cool one, Hollis the rich one. Tatum laughs, and Caroline gives her a quizzical look.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“She remembers the expression on her mother’s face when she and Kyle took pictures in the living room before the senior banquet: part delight, part longing, part resignation.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“True love makes you miserable.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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

“But it felt so good to be wild and free for a night, to be a person again, not just a wife and mother.)”
― 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

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

“You can be more than one kind of person in your life.”
― 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

“You don’t get to make it sound like you’re ending our relationship out of concern for me.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend