Harlan Coben Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 goverment 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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  Hurt, Enemy, Lessons

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

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  Love, Heart, Years

  Harlan Coben (2011). “3 Harlan Coben Novels: Promise Me, No Second Chance, Just One Look”, p.74, Penguin

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• Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

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  Wisdom, Helping Others, Asking For Help

  Harlan Coben (2012). “Seconds Away (Book Two): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

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  Worry, Starving, Fulfilment

  Harlan Coben (2009). “The Woods”, p.256, Hachette UK

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• This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

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  Tattoo, Teeth

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Harlan Coben 3 Novel Collection”, p.404, Penguin

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• A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

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  Cute, Mad, Dancer

  Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.237, Dell

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• 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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  Thinking, Might, Fool

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

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  Games, Want, Painting

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Interview with Sara Nelson, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

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  Children, Stress, Trying

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• Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

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  Memories, Doors, Ease

  "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, books.google.ru. April 25, 2013.

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• We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we have the rare ability to read others. This fascinates me at the moment.

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  Believe, Thinking, Moments

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Amazon Book Review Interview, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

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  Golf, Thinking, Ideas

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• The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

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  Voice, Attention, Might

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• The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

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  Writing, Care, Annoying

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

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  Jobs, Real, Inspiration

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• ...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

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  Giving, Alternatives, Answers

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Caught”, p.283, Penguin

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• 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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  Moving, Dark, Night

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

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  Blessing, You Re Pretty, Like Something

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Lines, Illness

  Harlan Coben (2008). “Hold Tight”, p.166, Penguin

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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

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  Book, Writing, Guy

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• 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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  Senior, Teacher, School

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• I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

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  Sports, Caring, Doe

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• 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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  Reality, Thinking, Insanity

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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

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  Unhappy, Needs, Irony

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• Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

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  Children, Real, Heart

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