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Fool Me Once QUOTES

Fool Me Once QUOTES

1 " 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 , Fool Me Once

2 " Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

3 " War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " But life changes people. It smothers that kind of larger-than-life woman. Time quiets them down. That firecracker girl you knew in high school—where is she now? It didn’t happen to men as much. Those boys often grew up to be masters of the universe. The super successful girls? They seemed to die of slow societal suffocation. So "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

7 " They say you never know how someone will react when the grenade is thrown. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

8 " 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. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

9 " There was an awkwardness to him, a stoicism that most people, with their need for appearances and fake smiles, found off-putting. Shane couldn’t handle small talk or the excess bullshittery of modern society. When "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

10 " Maya had one of those sudden “pow” moments sneak up on her, the ones all parents experience, when you are simply overwhelmed by your love for your child, when you are awestruck and you can feel something rising inside of you and you just want to hold onto it and yet, at the same time, that caring, that fear of losing this person, scares you into near paralysis. How, you wonder, will you ever relax again, knowing how unsafe the world is? Lily "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

11 " Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

12 " Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

13 " Relationships and marriages are hard enough, but you add war into the mix and small fissures become gaping wounds. No one sees what you’re seeing—again that clear-eyed, unbiased thing—except your fellow soldiers. It’s like one of those movies where only the hero can see the ghosts and everyone else thinks the hero is crazy. In "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

14 " All around her, children and families played and laughed and reveled in the glory of this seemingly ordinary day. They did so without fear or care because they didn’t get it. They all played and they all laughed and they felt so damn safe. They didn’t see how fragile it all was. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

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― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

16 " Most people oversimplify Occam’s razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn’t complicate, that you shouldn’t “stack” a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

17 " Semper paratus.” “It’s Latin,” Shane said. “It means ‘Always ready. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

18 " Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya filled her head with inanities like this as she watched Joe’s casket disappear into the earth. Distract yourself. That was the key. Get through it. The black dress itched. Over the past decade, Maya had been to a hundred-plus funerals, but this was the first time she’d been obligated to wear black. She hated it. To "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

19 " The company was in the short, hirsute form of NYPD homicide detective Roger Kierce. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once

20 " Guys who lack confidence in so many ways still manage to delude themselves into thinking they are irresistible to all women. "

― Harlan Coben , Fool Me Once