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The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1) QUOTES

The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

2 " 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. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

3 " 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.” “Okay.” “That world is gone, Gavin, and so it will now be easy to destroy the social order. The middle has become complacent. They are smart, but they are lazy. They see the grays. They get the other side. Extremists, on the other hand, see only black "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

4 " Extremists are relentless. They don’t see right or wrong—they see us and them. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

5 " You grow immune to cruelty. It becomes the norm. You accept it. You move on. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

6 " 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. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

7 " Memory makes demands that you often can’t keep. Memory is faulty because it insists on filling in the blanks. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

8 " people believe any crackpot conspiracy they see online. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

9 " Someone once told Hester that memories hurt, the good ones most of all. As she got older, Hester realized just how true that was. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

10 " he needed the woods. When he was away from these trees for too long, he felt as though he was suffocating, as though his lungs were ready to completely shut down. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

11 " Man may be evil or good, that wasn’t the issue. The issue was that man rarely considered the consequences of his actions. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

12 " That was Matthew’s grandmother. Nana never avoided a controversy if she could create one. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

13 " In short, man was often just plain stupid. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

14 " Gavin gestured toward the capsule. “I was a little surprised we found your place so easily. I figured you’d set up decoys. You ever read about the Ghost Army in World War Two?” Wilde had. “The Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

15 " On the side of the concrete wall, someone had long ago painted the words TIRE SERVICE in red and blue. The letters were faded now, beaten and stripped by years of sun. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

16 " walls, "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

17 " farkakte "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

18 " the Ghost Army, "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

19 " Wilde was a genius. She knew that. Who knew why? A child comes out hardwired. That was what you learned as a parent—that your kid is who he is and what he is and that you, as a parent, greatly overstate your importance in his development. 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. If a sports car drives into your garage for repairs, it isn’t driving out an SUV. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)

20 " Wilde almost smiled. “Nice loophole you found there.” “A corollary of my occupation. Love me for all my faults. "

― Harlan Coben , The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)