Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. (Harlan Coben Quotes)
“A dear friend once told her that being a parent is like being a car mechanic—you can repair the car and take care of the car and keep the car on the road, but you can’t fundamentally change the car.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.”
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Stay Close
“Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.”
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Deal Breaker
“Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something”
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Six Years
“America was waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that one-third of our people will kill one-third of our people while one-third of our people watches.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.”
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Darkest Fear
“Another male patron skulked around the back like he was in the adult movie area at his local video store.”
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Back Spin
“Another pause. Cameras pirouetted. Myron looked around. All the lenses were aiming down from up high, glaring at him like hostile space aliens or lunchroom monitors.”
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Back Spin
“Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate.”
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Six Years
“As a soldier, you don’t stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both your comrades and enemies.”
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Fool Me Once
“As they continued to wind through the crowd, a few women met Myron’s gaze and held it, though not as many as one, two, five years ago. He felt like an aging pitcher who needed this particular radar gun to tell him that his fastball was losing velocity. Or maybe there was something else at work here.”
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Live Wire
“At one time, this might have been a nice area, but now the neighborhood looked like a man who’d lost his job and stopped bathing.”
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Back Spin
“Being this handsome. It is not easy, you realize.’ ‘And yet you suffer without complaint.”
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One False Move
“Believing in nurture is like believing in God. You might be wrong, but you might as well cover your bases.”
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Darkest Fear
“Both fathers, Hunter Moore, a physician, and Chick Baldwin, a hedge fund manager, were summoned from their places of work.”
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Home
“Boy is getting all Ds and Fs in math so his parents send him to Catholic school. On his first report card, his parents are shocked to see their son getting straight As. When his parents ask him why, he says, “Well, when I went into the chapel and saw that guy nailed to a plus sign, I knew they were serious.”
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The Innocent
“Buddy Ray just smiled at me. If the cracked teeth or blood was bothering him, he didn’t show it. The smile had nothing behind it. No mirth, no joy, no soul. It was the scariest smile I had ever seen.”
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Shelter
“But if Frank had wanted Pavel dead, he would have had Aaron do it. Pavel had been murdered between midnight and one. Aaron was dead by midnight. Myron mulled this over a bit and decided that Aaron’s being dead made it extremely unlikely he was the killer.”
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Drop Shot
“But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn’t that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you’re moving slowly, not sure which direction you’re heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don’t realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.”
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Hold Tight
“But the truth is, we all take facts and compute them through our own experiences.”
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One False Move
“But they also were on some base level congenitally brave. There was a selflessness within them, a purity of action.”
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Stay Close
“By the time Myron was forced to return, their clients were scattering into the night like kitchen help during an immigration bust.”
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Darkest Fear
“Certain problems cannot be solved if you are constantly entertained and distracted.”
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Missing You
“Children view their parents as both intrepid and omnipotent.”
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Tell No One
“Confusion helps. Confusion leads to lengthy reconstruction and clarification and exposition and several other “ions.”
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Tell No One
“Daisy wore a clingy black dress with a neckline so deep it could tutor philosophy.”
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Don’t Let Go
“Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.”
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Fool Me Once
“Doctors kept stressing that mental disease was the same as physical disease. Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued. Maybe, to be more charitable, it was because you could hide a mental disease.” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
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Fool Me Once
“Every house on every street is really just a family facade. We look at it and think we know what’s going on inside, but we never really have any idea.”
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Missing You
“Every kid, Megan thought, is a frustrated lawyer, finding loopholes, demanding impossible levels of proof, attacking even the most minute of minutia.”
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Stay Close
“Every person has hopes and dreams.”
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Don’t Let Go
“Every relationship has fissures and cracks. That doesn’t mean it’s meaningless or bad or even wrong. We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray. Yet we somehow expect our relationships to never be anything but simple and pure.”
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Missing You
“Extremism and outrage are simple, relentless, attention-seeking. Rationality and prudence are difficult, exhausting, mundane.”
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Win
“Extremists are relentless. They don’t see right or wrong—they see us and them.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“Fame is more addictive than crack. Adults who lose fame–one-hit wonders, for example–usually tailspin into depression, though they try to act like they’re above it. They don’t want to admit the truth. Their whole life is a lie, a desperate scramble for another dose of that most potent of drugs.”
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No Second Chance
“Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful.”
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Fool Me Once
“For a wonderful guy who is usually so damn perceptive, you can be pretty obtuse sometimes.”
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Long Lost
“Genius is a curse. That’s how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can’t. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.”
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Caught
“Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers.” She slapped my back. “Welcome to high school.”
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Shelter
“God, she loved this kid. Wendy had one of those waves, the ones that sneak up on parents and crush them and make them just want to wrap their arms around their kid and never let him go.”
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Caught
“Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.”
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Missing You
“He and Corinne were such a couple, such a unit, that the idea of her running away someplace without him or their family was completely anathema to him.”
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The Stranger
“He could really fool the shit out of himself. A guy had to be careful about creating his own reality. Because you could get lost in it, so lost that it was hard to get back to the real world.”
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Play Dead
“He had learned a valuable lesson about physical confrontations: You can predict nothing. Sure, whoever lands the first blow usually wins. The bigger man was usually victorious too. But once it got going, once the red tornado took hold of the combatants, anything could happen.”
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The Innocent
“He had learned never to disturb her when the keyboard was clacking. He left a quick note and slipped out. He grabbed the 6 train up to midtown and walked to the Kinney lot on 46th Street. Mario tossed him the keys without glancing up from his paper.”
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Back Spin
“He put his foot up on the lowest bench, leaned onto his knee, and took a few seconds to scan our faces. “I believe in all of you. I believe in this team. And I believe we can still achieve great things this season.” Absolute silence. “Okay,”
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Found
“He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.”
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Drop Shot
“He straightened out his car and shifted into drive. His foot pressed down upon the pedal. The speedometer climbed. Myron’s face twisted into a mask of incognizant fury. Tears sheeted down his cheeks but no sound came with them. He drove without really seeing.”
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Fade Away
“He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.”
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Deal Breaker
“He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you wants to hide and build fences”
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Fade Away
“He wanted to ask why, but the question was so obvious, just hanging out there within easy view, that to voice it would be redundant.”
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Back Spin
“Here is the truth about tragedy: it’s good for the soul.”
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Tell No One
“His cologne smelled like too many European businessmen jammed into a morning elevator.”
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Six Years
“His eyes still had the ice blue of youth, and he aimed them my way.”
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Tell No One
“His hair was a reformed mullet by way of a retired hockey player who now did color commentary on a local television station.”
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Live Wire
“His smile did more than lack warmth. It was the most purely physical smile Myron had ever seen, a byproduct strictly of the brain giving specific orders to certain muscles. It touched no part of him but his lips.” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
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One False Move
“Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world.”
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Stay Close
“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”
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Six Years
“I always assumed I’d find love like that. But now I don’t want it. It isn’t healthy. It makes you too dependent. You smile when they smile. You laugh when they laugh. But when they stop laughing, so do you. And when they die, a part of you dies too.”
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Seconds Away
“I am rather small boned and, from a distance, appear frail – a bully’s irresistibly tasty morsel. It is only when you get close to me that you sense there is considerable coil under the clothes. But by then, it is usually too late. You’ve seen the easy mark, you’ve laughed about me with your friends, you can’t back out.”
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Win
“I don’t fly private or have a driver because I crave more comfort in my life. I spend the money on those items because at jets and chauffeur-driven cars allow you to do. I have the ability to buy time – and that, when you the end of your life, you will crave more of what the annoying experts coin “quality time.” That’s what private think about it, is the closest thing to buying happiness and longevity.”
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Win
“I don’t get fandom in general. I never care who wins a contest in which I (or someone dear to me) am not an active participant. Why, I often wonder, would anyone?”
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Win
“I don’t remember how big the balloons were. I was a kid then. Everything looks bigger when you’re a kid.”
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Fade Away
“I find every human being is a tale if you ask the right questions.”
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Win
“I kept hearing that “better to have loved and lost” bullshit. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don’t show me paradise and then burn it down”
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Tell No One
“I know it appears that I am casual with sex, but the truth is very much the opposite. Sex is sacred to me. It is the closest thing I will ever know to religious euphoria.”
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Win
“I like violence. I like it a lot. I don’t condone it for others. I condone it for me. I don’t fight as a last resort. I fight whenever I can. I don’t try to avoid trouble. I actively seek it out.”
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Win
“I make every woman feel as though she is the only one in the world. It is not an act. A woman will sense if you lack authenticity. While we are together, this woman and I, it is just us two. The world is gone. My focus is total.”
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Win
“I might be good at what I do, but despite the fact that King’s Cross station is indeed where Harry Potter headed off for Hogwarts, I do not possess an invisibility cloak.”
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Home
“I remember everything about her. The way she looked. The way she smelled. The way she’d come home from her job so tired she could barely put her feet up. I don’t think I’ve talked about her five times in the past twenty years. But I think about her every day. I think about why she gave me up. And I think about why I still miss her.”
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One False Move
“I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.”
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The Stranger
“I still love libraries. I love the hybrid quality, the new computer sections and the books yellowing with age. Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education to the level of the religious.”
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Don’t Let Go
“I think I left her first. At least emotionally. She left me because in part I left her.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“I want to say something comforting, but I know that this is one of the moments when words would be like an appendix—superfluous or harmful.”
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Don’t Let Go
“I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you. I didn’t. The clichés apply-people are what count, life is precious, materialism is over rated, and the little things matter, live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam. You might listen, but you won’t internalize. Tragedy hammers it hm. Tragedy etches into your soul. You might not be happier. But you will be better.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“If a man had enough to eat, he’d want to grow a second mouth.’ He also had a dirty way of saying it, but I won’t repeat it here.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“If I go all out in the smooth department,” Myron said, “women all over the tri-state area begin to disrobe. I need to harness the power.”
Harlan Coben
Promise Me
“If I have to cheer for you to know I’m proud,” Dad once told Myron, “then I’m doing something wrong.”
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Home
“If life were a movie, this was the part where you’d start the music montage. Some sappy song would be playing while they flashed to Ashley and me sharing lunch, talking, laughing, looking coy, holding hands—and ending with that first chaste kiss.”
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Shelter
“If you give desperation any wiggle room, it will toy with you.”
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Six Years
“If you’re ready to end it, end it. Make a clean break and don’t look back.”
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Win
“I’m not saying there’s no such thing as right or wrong. But I’m saying what may work for some doesn’t work for others. ”
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Missing You
“In life, you can forgive yourself for a lot, but for reasons that made very little rational sense, it is very hard to forgive yourself for surviving.”
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Missing You
“In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find. In their case, Jessica currently had the upper”
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Fade Away
“In movies, dying people always whispered the killer’s name. That wasn’t right, Flora now realized. Because in that last minute you’ve already moved on. You suddenly understand that the world is just a bunch of silly people doing silly things…”
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Play Dead
“In prison, some of the guards used to carry stun guns. They worked, Matt had learned, by overloading and thus disrupting the internal communication system. The current mimics the body’s own natural electrical impulses, confusing them, telling the muscles to do a great deal of work, depleting energy.”
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The Innocent
“In the end, every news story, and yes, I’m moving if not mixing my metaphors, is a burning fire – if you don’t feed it a new log, it dies out.”
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Win
“In the movies, killers are omnipotent. In real life, they are not. They don’t escape from handcuffs in the middle of a high-security federal penitentiary.”
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Just One Look
“In the past, those headlines would have lasted for days, weeks, even months. Not today. Today our attention span is that of a child receiving a new toy. We play with it intensely for a day, maybe two, and then we grow bored and see another new toy and throw this one under the bed and forget all about it.”
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Win
“In the ultimate pursuit of knowledge, you can easily become ignorant.”
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Miracle Cure
“Introductions were made. Hands were shaken. Rear ends were seated. As was his custom in such situations, Win remained silent. His eyes slid from one side of the room to the other, taking in everything. He liked to study people for a while before speaking to them, especially in their home environment.”
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Fade Away
“Intuition was often a way of cutting corners, a nifty technique of replacing hard evidence and facts with something far more elusive and capricious. The worst investigators Carlson knew relied on so-called intuition.”
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Tell No One
“It all changed in an instant. That was something I had learned the hard way. Your world doesn’t come apart slowly. It doesn’t gradually crumble or break into pieces. It can be destroyed in a snap of the fingers.” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
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Found
“It was all so damn fragile, that was the thing. Obvious, for sure,but for the most part we block – we refuse to think about how easily our lives could be torn asunder, because when we recognize it, we lose our minds. The ones who are fearful all the time, who need to medicate to function? It is because they understand the reality, how thin the line is. It isn’t that they can’t accept the truth – its that they can’t block it.”
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Hold Tight
“It was late when he got home, but as usual, every light in the house was still switched on. A lot of school time nowadays was spent on conservation and renewable energy, but his two boys hadn’t learned yet how to depart a room without leaving on the lights.”
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The Stranger
“It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.”
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Hold Tight
“It was obvious and a bit of cliché, but we don’t really age in a straight line. We age in a circle, curving back to childhood, but in all the wrong ways.”
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Stay Close
“It was one lesson he never forgot. You don’t sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted. And you don’t act like the government with their “proportional responses” and all that nonsense. If someone hurts you, mercy and pity must be put aside. You eliminate the enemy. You scorch the earth.”
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Tell No One
“It was true what they said: The older you become, the more you are like your parents. Soon he’d be telling a kid not to stick his elbow out the car window or he’d lose it.”
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The Final Detail
“It’s been a long day.” “It’s only nine in the morning.” Myron said, “For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?”
Harlan Coben
Back Spin
“It’s funny what you forget. Or what you make yourself forget. Except, I guess, you never totally forget, do you? You want to forget, and you even do forget, but you don’t. Am I making sense?”
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Win
“It’s important to like what you’re doing. Choosing a profession is the most important decision you’ll ever make—more important even than choosing a spouse.”
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Fade Away
“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay.”
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Shelter
“Jared was her son and the “co-general manager” of the Yankees—co meaning shares the title with someone who knows what he’s doing because he got the job through nepotism.”
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The Final Detail
“Junior year of high school. Ask Mom and Dad what they did yesterday, they won’t remember. Ask them about anything from his youth, and it’s like they studied replays at night. He held up his hands in mock surrender. “Got me.”
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Promise Me
“Just because you do right doesn’t mean that wrong won’t still find you.”
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Found
“Kids don’t come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.”
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Just One Look
“Let’s live on the edge, old friend. That’s where all the goodies reside.”
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Home
“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education to the level of the religious.”
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Don’t Let Go
“Life is a series of close calls, of weighing pros and cons.”
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Win
“Life is like a river and when you change its course, you’re responsible for where it goes.”
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Live Wire
“Life is lived in the grays. That is a problem for most people. It is so much easier to see the world in black and white. Someone is all good or all bad.”
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Win
“Life isn’t lived in the black and white, Wilde. People like to think so nowadays. All the online outrage, things are either all good or all bad. But life is lived in the gray. Life is lived in the nuances.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“Man may be evil or good, that wasn’t the issue. The issue was that man rarely considered the consequences of his actions. In short, man was often just plain stupid.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“Maybe it was because the lonely can sometimes sense the lonely.”
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Shelter
“Memories aren’t kept on some microchip in the skull or filed away in a cabinet somewhere deep in our cranium. Memories are something we reconstruct and piece together. They are fragments we manufacture to create what we think occurred or even simply hope to be true. In short, our memories are rarely accurate. They are biased reenactments. Shorter still: We all see what we want to see.”
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Win
“Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.”
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Tell No One
“Memory makes demands that you often can’t keep. Memory is faulty because it insists on filling in the blanks.”
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The Boy from the Woods
“Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate. We can pity. But we cannot fully grasp.”
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One False Move
“Most people hate silence and will do anything to break it, including saying something incriminating.”
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Win
“Most people understand on some level that there are a lot of surveillance cameras out there, but very few people really get it. There are forty million surveillance cameras in the United States alone and the number keeps growing. You never go through a day without being recorded.”
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Missing You
“My great-grandfather, Dad often told us, saved his best wines for special occasions. He was killed when the Nazis invaded Paris. The Nazis ended up drinking his wine. Lesson: you never wait. When I was growing up, we used only the good plates. We used the best linens. We drank out of Waterford crystal. When my father died, his wine cellar was nearly empty.”
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Don’t Let Go
“My relationships with men are like a wild buckaroo ride at a rodeo – it’s exciting and crazy and I know it’s going to be me who gets thrown off in the end and breaks a rib when I smack the ground.”
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Win
“Myron likes to say that even the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.”
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Home
“Myron remembered something his father once told him: People have an amazing capacity to mess up their own lives.”
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Live Wire
“Never let anybody else in on your secret or it won’t be a secret anymore.”
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Play Dead
“Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos – but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends.”
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Win
“Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.”
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One False Move
“Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. – T. S. Eliot” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
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The Stranger
“Oh, you’ve made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.”
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Promise Me
“On the back cargo door, there was an oval magnetic decal with the name of their town written in black, a seemingly perquisite automotive tribal tattoo in suburbia nowadays.”
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The Stranger
“On the one hand, this whole crazy day still felt like a no-harm-no-foul situation. She could leave here unscathed. On the other, she kept looking over her shoulder, as though she were being followed.”
Harlan Coben
Stay Close
“On the radio a rock group called the Motels were repeatedly singing the ingenious line Take the L out of lover, and it’s over. Deep. Literal, but still deep. The Motels. Whatever happened to them?”
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Drop Shot
“One thousand dollars for processing and shipping. Then there are yearly storage fees. I know that may sound expensive, but this is a one-time opportunity. Cord blood contains stem cells that save lives. Simple as that. They can treat anemias and leukemias. They can fight infection and help with certain kinds of cancer.”
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Long Lost
“Or maybe she was being uncharitable. Maybe they were just trying to make the best out of their disappointment.”
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Caught
“Our whole relationship did have that unreal quality to it, both of us away from our regular lives and all the mundanely that goes along with that.”
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Six Years
“Painful memories didn’t just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once”
Harlan Coben
Six Years
“Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy”
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Six Years
“People used to buy the “everyone is equal” rationale we Americans brilliantly sold throughout our esteemed history, though lately more and more get what has always been obvious: Money tilts all scales. Money is power.”
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Win
“Perhaps the greatest lesson was also the simplest: Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment and do everything you can to protect it. The rest of life, in a sense, is background noise.”
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Missing You
“Politicians used deception and slick packaging to create an image a person could trust.”
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Miracle Cure
“Politics and the press; two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware.”
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One False Move
“Relationships are never fifty-fifty. Sometimes they are sixty-forty, sometimes eighty-twenty. You’ll be the eighty sometimes, you’ll be the twenty others. The key is to accept and be okay with that.”
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Win
“Right now, even though he’d been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father’s big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?”
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Caught
“Roger was a skinny kid. His arms were reeds with absolutely no definition. He did not look up as she spoke.”
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Promise Me
“Sad songs are a safe hurt. It’s a diversion. It’s controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it’s not. You can’t prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.”
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Hold Tight
“Sex is for anyone; the aftermath is for lovers.”
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Tell No One
“Sex may be the greatest shared experience in the world. Yes, I enjoy going out for a gourmet meal or a good show or the company of dear friends. I appreciate golf and music and art. But do any of those compare to an evening of sex? Methinks not.”
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Win
“She dabbed her eye. A sarcastic rejoinder came to my lips, but I bit it back.”
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Gone for Good
“She rose. Lindsey was pretty in a way that only the young are, with that enthusiasm and smile that belong exclusively to the innocent or the cult recruiter.”
Harlan Coben
Just One Look
“She started playing what-if, wondering what would happen if her father suddenly materialized in the seat next to her, if she told him that she knew everything and that he had been given a second chance, what would her father do? Death was probably a great educator.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“She stopped as though out of breath. She hugged her knees to her chest and turned away. Myron looked at Win. Win kept still. The silence pressed against the windows and doors.”
Harlan Coben
One False Move
“She turned and stared at the young D.A. as though he were a bleeding boar and she was a panther with an industrial-sized case of piles.”
Harlan Coben
Gone for Good
“Silence was better than telling lies or speaking words that meant nothing.”
Harlan Coben
Play Dead
“Sitting for an hour without reading material meant he had to think.”
Harlan Coben
Fade Away
“So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell.” Not basically,” Win corrected. “Entirely.”
Harlan Coben
Fade Away
“Some people are drawn to trouble. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up.”
Harlan Coben
Stay Close
“Some people believe objects take energy from their owners,” Elise said once she’d paid and grabbed the noisy plastic bag. “And when they absorb so much, they begin giving it back.”
Harlan Coben
Play Dead
“Some people claim that money is the root of all evil. Could be. Others say that money can’t buy you happiness. That may be true. But if you handle it right, money buys you freedom and time, and those are a lot more tangible than happiness.”
Harlan Coben
Don’t Let Go
“Some people held grudges; Esperanza clutched them and tied them around her waist and used cement and Crazy glue to hold them steady.”
Harlan Coben
One False Move
“Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.”
Harlan Coben
Stay Close
“Some things we pack away, stick in the back of the closet, never expect to see again ― but we can’t quite make ourselves discard them. Like dreams, I guess.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“Someone is always worse off than you. That never seemed like much comfort.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.”
Harlan Coben
Seconds Away
“Spoon came up next to me. The cop frowned his disapproval with everything he had. Not just his mouth frowned. All of him joined in. He had a unibrow and Cro-Magnon forehead. They frowned too. He glared at Spoon, then turned it back at me. “And you are?”
Harlan Coben
Shelter
“Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I thought we would be different. We were, I guess, but not in the way I thought. I truly believed that we would never let each other go. The young are so dumb.” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
Harlan Coben
The Woods
“Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“Survival is the thing. The mind will twist to survive. Anything can become normal.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“Sussex County sheriff Mickey Walker loomed behind him like a solar eclipse.”
Harlan Coben
Caught
“Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued.”
Harlan Coben
Fool Me Once
“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”
Harlan Coben
Six Years
“That’s the trouble with your generation. You always want to unearth unpleasantness. You think dragging the ugly out in the sunlight will destroy it. It doesn’t. Just the opposite. You give the ugly thing life nourishment.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“The big man could no longer breathe. One of the other men started to rise. Win leveled his gun at the man’s head. “Important note,” Win said. “I’m not big on warning shots.”
Harlan Coben
One False Move
“The boys ran and played with such wonderful abandonment. Adults could never play like that.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“The boys wore helmets that looked too big on their heads, like the Great Gazoo on The Flintstones, and it was nearly impossible to tell which kid was which.”
Harlan Coben
Caught
“The brothers frowned and strolled toward him. One cracked his neck as he strutted. The other opened and closed fists. Matt felt his blood hum.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don’t say.”
Harlan Coben
The Stranger
“The cast on his leg had been enormous and about as comfortable as wearing a jockstrap made of tweed. He hobbled around for months, listening to Sara tease him. “Stop imitating my limp. It’s not a very nice thing to do.”
Harlan Coben
Miracle Cure
“The danger of video games was that they shut the world out. The beauty of video games was that they shut the world out.”
Harlan Coben
Just One Look
“The eyebrows were his most prominent feature—unusually thick and angry and constantly undulating”
Harlan Coben
Drop Shot
“The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.”
Harlan Coben
The Woods
“The grease from the awful lunch buffet took to the air, becoming more a skin coating than a smell.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“The great thing about the Internet: It gives everyone a voice. The bad thing about the Internet: It gives everyone a voice.”
Harlan Coben
Live Wire
“The homes were beautiful and picturesque and had all the warmth of a chain motel.”
Harlan Coben
Home
“The house had the stale smell of a grandparent. When you’re a kid, the smell gives you the creeps; when you’re an adult, you want to bottle it and let it out with a cup of cocoa on a bad day.”
Harlan Coben
One False Move
“The humpback never sees the hump in his own back.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“The Internet makes it easy to be deceptive. The Internet makes it easy to be anonymous and to lie and to keep terrible, destructive secrets from your loved ones.”
Harlan Coben
The Stranger
“The key to making time slow down is to have new experiences”
Harlan Coben
Don’t Let Go
“The key was preparation. That was what separated the good from the great. The greats covered their tracks. The greats prepared for every eventuality.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“The line at the ticket sales counter was long. That was good, if the timing worked. He wanted the staff to be busy. When it was his turn, the woman behind the desk gave him that distracted smile.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“The minister wore a light blue, three-piece suit, an obvious hairpiece, and a gold wedding band. No watch. No other jewelry. Nothing ostentatious. His face was gentle, trusting—the face of a dear uncle or friendly neighbor. His bright smile, one of his biggest assets, was firmly set. “Thank”
Harlan Coben
Miracle Cure
“The old saw about bad news traveling fast has never been truer than in the age of the Internet.”
Harlan Coben
Don’t Let Go
“The pain flooded in again. It was always there, of course. Through the shaking hands and slapping of the backs, the grief stayed by his side, tapping Griffin on the shoulder, whispering in his ear, reminding him that they were partners for life.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“The press could not help themselves. They attacked like ravenous relatives around a buffet table.”
Harlan Coben
Deal Breaker
“The reason why there are so many police officers surrounding this house is because they want to make sure that we do not remove anything before a search warrant is issued. They have made it crystal clear that they want no Kardashians on this one.” Kardashian. As in O.J. The man had changed law lexicon forever.”
Harlan Coben
Back Spin
“The receptionist said, “Mr. Englehardt will see you now.” She led them down a corridor with thin plaster walls and a bad paint job. Englehardt sat behind a plastic-wood desk. He was probably late twenties with a slight build and a chin weaker than machine-dispensed coffee. Myron”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“The rich are very good at using generosity to get what they want.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, “If you have nothing negative to say, don’t say anything at all.”
Harlan Coben
Six Years
“The secret in any interview was the ability to not fill the silence. A few seconds passed.”
Harlan Coben
Caught
“The shirts were buttoned low enough that their gray chest hair jutted out like steel wool.”
Harlan Coben
Gone for Good
“The stupidest men are the ones who think they can’t be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don’t know what they don’t know.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“The truth may be better than lies… But it doesn’t always set you free.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“The whole place had a feel and aura about as warm as a cold sore.”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.”
Harlan Coben
Caught
“The young family who’d moved into the Miller home had gotten rid of the Millers’ trademark overflowing flower boxes. The new owners of the Davis place had ripped out those wonderful shrubs Bob Davis had worked on every weekend. It all reminded Myron of an invading army ripping down the flags of the conquered.” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“There is an odd psychology amongst those who inherit great wealth, because deep down inside, they realize that they did nothing to earn it, that it really was just a matter of luck, and yet how can it be that they are not special?”
Harlan Coben
Win
“There is an unmistakable look to prison muscles, a smooth, marblelike quality as opposed to their puffier health club counterparts.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“There is no bond like blood, but there is no compound as volatile either.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night. The building had been created for life, for constant motion, for students rushing back and forth, some confident, most scared, all trying to figure out their place in the world. Take that away and you might as well have a body drained of all its blood.”
Harlan Coben
Shelter
“There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can’t know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“There was an old joke about being left on a deserted island with an editor. You are starving. All you have left is a glass of orange juice. Days pass. You are near death. You are about to drink the juice when the editor grabs the glass from your hand and pees into it. You look at him, stunned . “There,” the editor says, handing you the glass. “It just needed a little tweaking.”
Harlan Coben
Promise Me
“There were two laminated class chairs in front of most of the doors. The chairs looked sturdy and practical and about as comfortable as a tweed thong.”
Harlan Coben
Live Wire
“There were usually protestors of some sort, but they looked more like actors in a nostalgic revival than genuine revolutionaries.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“There’s always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it’s in the room with you forever now. It’s your constant companion.”
Harlan Coben
Seconds Away
“These men – sorry, I don’t want to sound sexist, but they are almost always men – are insecure losers of biblical proportions.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“They all employed lots of skinny, bored teenagers who stocked shelves with the enthusiasm of a eunuch at an orgy.”
Harlan Coben
Back Spin
“They asked for my name. I was tempted to go with either I. P. Daily or Wink Martindale, but I stuck with Mark Kadison because he was a friend of mine and if they called, he’d just laugh.”
Harlan Coben
Long Lost
“They bliss and fear are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.”
Harlan Coben
No Second Chance
“They headed out the front door. Myron kept his eyes on the For Sale sign as though it might suddenly brandish a gun.”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“They needed some Jews or gays or something to spice things up, to add a bit of theater and a couple of interesting bistros.”
Harlan Coben
Back Spin
“They often quoted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved Sherlock Holmes: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Harlan Coben
Home
“They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You’re numb. You can’t adequately accept the grim reality.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You’re numb. You can’t adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that’s not true. Not for me anyway.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“They say possesions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“They say you never know how someone will react when the grenade is thrown.”
Harlan Coben
Fool Me Once
“They take in the full experience of great loves and great tragedies without backing down or crouching into some sort of defensive stance. If life is going to punch them in the face, they stick their chins out and savor the moment. That is living life to the fullest.”
Harlan Coben
Don’t Let Go
“They walked in the comfortable silence of two men who had known each other a long time and very well.”
Harlan Coben
Fade Away
“They were heading into the wooded areas of the mountains. The elevation was causing Adam’s ears to clog up.”
Harlan Coben
The Stranger
“They’re politicians,’ Win said. ‘They’d lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.”
Harlan Coben
One False Move
“Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.”
Harlan Coben
Fool Me Once
“This is how detecting works. You keep going even if what you’re doing seems like a momentous waste of time and energy.”
Harlan Coben
Don’t Let Go
“This is how I was taught to investigate. You ask questions. You poke around and perhaps you jar something loose.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“This pain is better than the pain of giving up on him. A mother doesn’t give up on her child. So I can live with the pain. I can’t live with giving up.”
Harlan Coben
Home
“Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don’t need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier. That was all. You do horrible things to survive. Anyone who believes that they are above that is delusional.”
Harlan Coben
The Woods
“Those who claim they can spot a lie are usually just fooled with greater conviction.”
Harlan Coben
One False Move
“Three days ago, I was a dedicated doctor sleepwalking through my own life. Since then, I had seen a ghost, gotten emails from the dead, had become a suspect in not one but two murders, was on the run from the law, had assaulted a police officer, and had enlisted the aid of a known dug dealer.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“Time passed, but neither one of them noticed. They talked, mostly about Chad and the kind of son he was. Jack had held on and still led by eight strokes. A gigantic lead. If he blew it this time, it would be worse than twenty-three years ago.”
Harlan Coben
Back Spin
“Too much is made of “live every moment to its fullest.” It is an unrealistic goal, one that leads to more stress than satisfaction. The secret to fulfillment is not about exciting adventures or living out loud – no one can maintain that kind of pace – but in welcoming and even relishing the quiet and familiar.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“Tragedy sort of works this way: Once it snakes its way in, it cuts down all your defenses and allows its brethren easy access to feed.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“Two metallic swivel stools were painted red on the base, looking about as inviting as rectal thermometers.”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“Two of our biggest delusions are that “loyalty” and “keeping promises” are admirable qualities. They are not. They are oft an excuse to do the wrong thing and to protect the wrong person because you are supposed to be “a man of your word” or have a bond with or allegiance to someone who deserves neither. Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics.” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
Harlan Coben
Win
“War is never a meritocracy for the casualties.”
Harlan Coben
Fool Me Once
“Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don’t let ’em back in your life.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don’t put it in those terms. But we do.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education and perseverance, but the truth is, life is much more about the fickle and the random. We don’t want to admit it, but we are controlled by luck, by timing, by fate.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“We always seem to be on the eve of destruction. And we always seem to get through it.”
Harlan Coben
The Woods
“We are nothing. Man. Nothing. Yet we feel as though we are special. We think we matter or that God considers us his favorites. What a laugh.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That’s crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you’ll never stop – and then you reach a stage where the survival instinct takes over. You stop. You simply won’t or can’t let yourself “go there” anymore because the pain was too great. You block. You deny. But you don’t really heal.”
Harlan Coben
Live Wire
“We as a society have many prejudices, but there are very few of our fellow citizens we stigmatize and judge less charitably than what we consider to be “large” women.”
Harlan Coben
Home
“We don’t pray in foxholes because we are ready to meet our Maker. We pray because we don’t want to.
Harlan Coben
Live Wire
“We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. But we don’t care. We don’t see. We just keep pushing.”
Harlan Coben
The Stranger
“We humans can’t see straight. We are always biased. We always protect our own interests.”
Harlan Coben
The Stranger
“We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray. Yet we somehow expect our relationships to never be anything but simple and pure.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.”
Harlan Coben
Don’t Let Go
“We talked about how most Americans used to be in the middle, relatively speaking. That’s how America kept its balance all those years. The left and the right were close enough to have disagreements but not hate.”
Harlan Coben
The Boy from the Woods
“What I mean is, everything is pretty much decided by the time these children leave here and enter kindergarten. I can tell who will be successful and who will fail, who will end up happy and who will end up in prison, and ninety percent of the time I’m right. Maybe Hollywood and video games have an influence, I don’t know.”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, they both cry. —Yiddish proverb”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
“When she stripped it down, when she dismissed her not-so-subconscious prejudice—she was, after all, from the neighborhood too—maybe Kat could be grateful for that.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.”
Harlan Coben
Fool Me Once
“When you do battle, rules rapidly become null and void. Bite, kick, throw sand, use a weapon, whatever it takes. Real fights are about survival. There are no prizes or praise for sportsmanship. There is a victor. There is a loser. The end.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“When you have a child, you are never number one again. Someone is more important than you. It changes your worldview. It has to.”
Harlan Coben
The Innocent
“When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.”
Harlan Coben
Hold Tight
“When you listen to your gut, you are often just fooled with greater certainty.”
Harlan Coben
The Stranger
“When you’re young you don’t get how great it is to be loved unconditionally.”
Harlan Coben
Home
“When you’re young, you don’t realize how thin the line is between colorful and crazy.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“When you’re young, you think you have all the answers. You’re right wing or you’re left wing and the other side is a bunch of idiots. You know. When you get a little older, though, you start to more and more see the grays. Now I understand that true idiots are the ones who are certain they have the answers. It is never that simple. Do you know what I mean?” (Harlan Coben Quotes)
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“When your child is born, your life changes forever. That’s why I avoided fatherhood. I don’t want something in my life I care about more than me.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“Whores hung out the windows like shreds of leftover Christmas decorations.”
Harlan Coben
Deal Breaker
“With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.”
Harlan Coben
Live Wire
“Women have been conditioned to please. We are responsible not just for ourselves but everyone in our orbit. We think it is our job to comfort the man. We think we can make things better by sacrificing a bit of ourselves.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“Words are real. Even if you can’t see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don’t mean.”
Harlan Coben
Play Dead
“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
Harlan Coben
Promise Me
“You can participate or you can protect, but you really can’t do both. Her fellow soldiers would understand. Some might force themselves to cross over.”
Harlan Coben
Fool Me Once
“You could see Coach Bobby working the name, as if his forehead had a window and the squirrel running on the little track was picking up speed. When the synapses stopped firing, Coach Bobby’s grin practically ripped the boy-band goatee at the corners.”
Harlan Coben
Long Lost
“You don’t worry about happiness and fulfillment when you’re starving.”
Harlan Coben
The Woods
“You grow immune to cruelty. It becomes the norm. You accept it. You move on.”
Harlan Coben
The Boy from the Woods
“You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it’s almost impossible to comprehend.”
Harlan Coben
Seconds Away
“You hear about adrenaline, how it spurs you on and gives you uncanny strength, but there’s a flip side. The feeling is heady, out of control. It heightens your senses to the point of paralysis. You have to harness the power or it’ll choke you down.”
Harlan Coben
Tell No One
“You learn a lot about relationships when your job, in some ways, is to break them up. But the truth is, almost every relationship has breaking points. Every relationship has fissures and cracks. That doesn’t mean it’s meaningless or bad or even wrong. We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray. Yet we somehow expect our relationships to never be anything but simple and pure.”
Harlan Coben
Missing You
“You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships. You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.”
Harlan Coben
The Woods
“You look like several large orangutans made you their love slave.”
Harlan Coben
Stay Close
“You move forward in life. You may give the old you a nod every once in a while, but the old you is gone and not coming back. That was often a good thing.”
Harlan Coben
The Boy from the Woods
“You need to break a few eggs to make an omelet. I don’t know if that’s true, but if you break the eggs, better to make an omelet than a mess.”
Harlan Coben
Win
“You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.”
Harlan Coben
Six Years
“You want people lined up, Will. You want the good guys on one side, the bad on the other. It doesn’t work that way, does it? It is never that simple. Love, for example, leads to hate. I think that was what started it all. Primitive love.”
Harlan Coben
Gone for Good
“You won’t believe it. I don’t believe it either. And yet I know what I know. I don’t believe in magic or superstition. But I believe that there are some things we cannot yet comprehend—that there are things beyond our capabilities to understand. Sometimes, explaining how the universe works is like teaching a lion to read. Reading is real. The lion is real. But he’s never going to read.”
Harlan Coben
Found
“You’re not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.”
Harlan Coben
Darkest Fear
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