Harlan Coben Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.”
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“Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.”
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“There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.”
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“Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”
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“This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.”
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“Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy”
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“I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.”
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“A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.”
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“I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.”
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“The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.”
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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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“I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and listens and cries. Music does that to her...I didn't understand for a long time. But I do now. 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.”
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“Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.”
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“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
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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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“Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?" Win?" Yeah." You okay?" Hello?" Win?" Yeah." What took you so long to answer the phone?" Hello?" Win?" Who is this?" Myron." Myron Bolitar?" How many other Myrons do you know?" Myron Bolitar?" No, Myron Rockefeller." Something's wrong," Win said. What?" Terribly wrong." What are you talking about?" Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend." Sorry, I forgot the time.”
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“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
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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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“There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.”
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“So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.”
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“For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?”
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“The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.”
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“Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
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“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”
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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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“No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.”
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“I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.”
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“"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."”
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