Elin Hilderbrand famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Guilt #Caught #Worst
When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.
-- Elin Hilderbrand

#Window
To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
-- Elin Hilderbrand

#Forgotten
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.
-- Elin Hilderbrand

#Regret #What If #Done
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.
-- Elin Hilderbrand

#Ocean #Iowa #Cities
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
-- Elin Hilderbrand

#Country #Writing #School
I am a summer person.
-- Elin Hilderbrand

#Summer #Persons
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

#Bullshit #Let It Go #Were Meant To Be

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis
Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.
If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.
Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

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