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One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5) QUOTES

One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5) QUOTES

1 " They’re politicians,’ Win said. ‘They’d lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

2 " 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 (Myron Bolitar, #5)

3 " 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. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

4 " Or maybe it’s a ploy to get more sex.” She gave him a look that curled his chopsticks. “Maybe it’s working,” she said. “Maybe I’ll slip into something more comfortable,” he said. “Not that Batman mask again.” “Aw, c’mon, you can wear the utility belt.” She thought about it. “Okay, but no stopping in the middle and shouting, ‘Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.’  "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

5 " 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. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

6 " Being this handsome. It is not easy, you realize.’ ‘And yet you suffer without complaint. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

7 " From the right, Ted—it simply had to be a guy named Ted—finally made his entrance. He wore only Zoom shorts, and his abdomen was rippled like a relief map in marble. He was probably in his early twenties, model handsome, and he squinted like a prison guard. As he sashayed toward the shoot, Ted kept running both hands through his Superman blue-black hair, the movement expanding his chest and shrinking his waist and demonstrating shaved underarms. Brenda muttered, “Strutting peacock.” “That’s totally unfair,” Myron said. “Maybe he’s a Fulbright scholar.” “I’ve worked with him before. If God gave him a second brain, it would die of loneliness.” Her eyes veered toward Myron. “I don’t get something.” “What?” “Why you? You’re a sports agent. Why would Norm ask you to be my bodyguard?” “I used to work”—he stopped, waved a vague hand—“for the government.” “I never heard about that.” “It’s another secret. Shh.” “Secrets don’t stay secret much around you, Myron.” “You can trust me.” She "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

8 " Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

9 " Some people held grudges; Esperanza clutched them and tied them around her waist and used cement and Krazy glue to hold them steady. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

10 " Newark, New Jersey. The bad part. Almost a redundancy.
Decay was the first word that came to mind. The buildings were more than falling apart - they actually seemed to be breaking down, melting from some sort of acid onslaught. Here urban renewal was about as familiar a concept as time travel. The surroundings looked more like a war newsreel - Frankfurt after the Allies' bombing - than a habitable dwelling. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

11 " Eloise had been with Dad since before the riots. "As long as I breathe," Dad often said, "Eloise will have a job." She was like a second wife to him. She took care of him during his workday. They argued and fought and got grumpy with each other. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. "Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl," Mom liked to say, "or I might wonder. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

12 " Norm looked out over the court. The workers involved in the [model] shoot darted about like trapped particles under sudden heat. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

13 " Mom sprinted down the driveway and hugged Myron as though he'd just been released by Hamas terrorists. She also hugged Brenda. So did everyone else. Dad was in the back at the barbecue. A gas grill now, thank goodness, so Dad could stop loading on the lighter fluid with a hose. He wore a chef's hat somewhat taller than a control tower and an apron that read REFORMED VEGETARIAN. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

14 " Everyone talked with Brenda. They wanted to hear about the new women's league, but they were far more impressed when they heard Brenda was going to be a doctor. Dad even let Brenda take over the grill for a while, a move for Dad tantamount to donating a kidney. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

15 " They got back to the house late. Myron's father was feigning sleep in the recliner. Some habits die hard. Myron "woke" him up. He startled to consciousness. Pacino never overacted his much. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

16 " Myron swiveled toward a voice like warm honey on Sunday pancakes. With her long, purposeful stride - not the shy-girl walk of the too-tall or the nasty strut of a model - Brenda Slaughter swept into the room like a radar-tracked weather system. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

17 " Politics and the press; two cherished institutions that spoke with tongues so forked they could double for fine dinnerware. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

18 " His black-to-gray beard was unruly enough to nest beetle larvae, his hair curled like something out of a bad production of Godspell. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

19 " FJ's eyes slithered toward Myron. Myron kept up the eye contact, but there was still nothing there, like looking into the windows of an abandoned building. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

20 " Those who claim they can spot a lie are usually just fooled with greater conviction. "

― Harlan Coben , One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)