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101 " Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don’t let ’em back in your life. "
― Harlan Coben , Missing You
102 " 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. Fame "
― Harlan Coben , No Second Chance
103 " I ordered a cheeseburger and a beer from a waitress who looked as though she wanted to be in one of those want-to-get-away? commercials. She called me hon. I love when a waitress calls me hon. "
― Harlan Coben , The Woods
104 " 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. "
― Harlan Coben , Don't Let Go
105 " the cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don’t say. "
― Harlan Coben , The Stranger
106 " War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. "
― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once
107 " Well-meaning friends ' often the worst kind ' handed me the usual clich+!s, and so I feel in a pretty good position to warn you: Just offer your deepest condolences. Don't tell me I'm young. Don't tell me it'll get better. Don't tell me she's in a better place. Don't tell me it's part of some divine plan. Don't tell me that I was lucky to have known such a love. Every one of those platitudes pissed me off. They made me ' and this is going to sound uncharitable ' stare at the idiot and wonder why he or she still breathed while my Elizabeth rotted. "
― Harlan Coben , Tell No One
108 " They - bliss and fear - are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other. "
109 " 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. "
110 " 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. "
111 " I'd rather read than relax. I'd rather keep the mind engaged. "
― Harlan Coben , Six Years
112 " 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? "
― Harlan Coben , Caught
113 " Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world. "
― Harlan Coben , Stay Close
114 " The 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. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart. "
― Harlan Coben , Hold Tight
115 " 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. "
116 " If you give desperation any wiggle room, it will toy with you. "
117 " 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. "
118 " I have learned that human beings are all about incentives "
119 " There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance. "
120 " When you’re young you don’t get how great it is to be loved unconditionally. "
― Harlan Coben , Home (Myron Bolitar, #11)