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I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.

Harlan Coben

We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for not responding exactly as we see fit, and we have no idea that behind their facade, they may be dealing with some industrial-strength shit. Their lives may be in pieces. They may be in the midst of incalculable tragedy and turmoil, and they may be hanging on to their sanity by a thread. But we don't care. We don't see. We just keep pushing.

Harlan Coben

The world doesn't give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems.

Harlan Coben

Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.

Harlan Coben

Teenagers

The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.

Harlan Coben

The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.

Harlan Coben

We humans can't see straight. We are always biased. We always protect our own interests.

Harlan Coben

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Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world.

Harlan Coben in Stay Close

Before we go forward, we have to look back.

Harlan Coben in Gone for Good

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!

Harlan Coben in The Woods

Ambition

You've made plenty of short stories long. But never, ever, have you made a long story short.

Harlan Coben in Promise Me

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Harlan Coben in Tell No One

Summer romances come to an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I thought we would be different. We were, I guess, but not in the way I thought. I truly believed that we would never let each other go. The young are so dumb.

Harlan Coben in The Woods

That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song.

Harlan Coben in Six Years

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

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Talking Hearing & Listening

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

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

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.

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

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

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Death

"Semper paratus." "It's Latin," Shane said. "It means 'Always ready'."

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Latin Phrases

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

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

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 in Fool Me Once

Depression

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 in Fool Me Once

It was obvious and a bit of cliché, but we don't really age in a straight line. We age in a circle, curving back to childhood, but in all the wrong ways.

Harlan Coben in Stay Close

Here is the truth about tragedy: it's good for the soul.

Harlan Coben in Tell No One

Sex is for anyone; the aftermath is for lovers.

Harlan Coben in Tell No One

Sex Erotic Quotes

I kept hearing that "better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Harlan Coben in Tell No One

A beating hurts for a little while. The shame of cowardice never leaves.

Harlan Coben in Gone for Good

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Joanne K. Rowling

Internet Teenagers

Even in the darkness, diamonds still shine.

Girl from Nowhere - Season 1 Episode 3

Diamonds

Why would anyone want to be a pirate? It's the best thing there is. Wind in your back. The salty sea air. Loyal crew by your side.

Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece - Netflix Live Action

Pirates

What if everything that came from the past were influenced by the future?

H.G. Tannhaus in Dark

Future Past

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

Don't exploit an advantage just because it emerges; wait until the optimal moment, then strike.

Ciri in The Witcher - III - Wild Hunt

Patience & Endurance Advantages & Disadvantages

Ats Ayittey: "Excuse me but this is the quiet carriage."
Stefan Tovell: "Shut the f*ck up then."

Top Boy - Season 3 Episode 7

"Hey. Do you like bad boys?"
"Sure do. Let me know if you find one."

Billie Connelly in Sex/Life - Season 1 Episode 1

Marcus: "My bike. It's gone. She took it."
Max: "So that's like Grand Theft Auto. Or Grand Theft Bike."

Maxine Baker in Ginny & Georgia - Season 2 Episode 1

Aimee: "Did you know you need, like, sugar and flour and an oven to bake? And you don't shove it all in, you have to follow alle these rules."
Maeve: "Yeah, it's called a recipe."

Maeve Wiley in Sex Education - Season 2 Episode 2

I think love should come out of nowhere, sweep you up completely.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

The people's rage. It is like an illness, an ulcer. And ulcers must be cauterized.

Princess Sophia in The Empress - Season 1 Episode 1

Revolution

People say Hawkins is cursed. They're not way off.

Dustin Henderson in Stranger Things - Season 4

Weems: "No doubt you'll find something that tickles your fancy."
Wednesday: "The last person who tickled me lost a finger."

Wednesday Addams in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 2

I'm responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast!

BoJack in BoJack Horseman

Even people that have made mistakes deserve happiness.

Karen Stone in Manifest - Season 1 Episode 1

Failures & Mistakes

Charlie: "You didn't have to do that. I'm used to people saying stuff about me."
Nick: "No. But you shouldn't have to be. People shouldn't be saying stuff about you in the first place. You shouldn't have to put up with anything like that."

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper - Season 1 Episode 7

Bullying

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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