“Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don’t let ’em back in your life.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Casual affairs never interested him. Every girl he met was gauged as a potential life partner, a soul mate, an undying love,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“perhaps the greatest lesson was also the simplest: Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night. The building had been created for life, for constant… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I ran down the hill. I went to your place, afraid, I don’t know. I just didn’t know. But you were gone.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“It is always us against them. That’s what all of life is. We fight wars for that reason. We make decisions every… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“...whenever I see a table of college “friends” sitting together they are inevitably texting with unseen others, searching, always searching, I guess,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Life, he suspected, hinges too often on chance. We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Here is one of life’s little shortcuts: If someone is meeting you in their “study,” they have money. Normal people have a… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Still, death is a great teacher. It's just too harsh. I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy I mined… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“He changed and worked out with weights. Throughout his adult life, Adam had cycled through a potpourri of workout programs—yoga (not flexible),… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“There are various theories about why the years seem to pass faster as you get older. The most popular is also the… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“He flipped through the music stations as he drove, searching for some nonexistent perfect song that would be, as Stevie Nicks might sing, “hauntingly… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
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,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
“Awareness started to creep in, clawing its way past the pain and numbness. He was lying on cold ground, his right cheek on a… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
“The words kept landing like punches, dazing Adam, sapping his resistance, leaving him shaken and confused and ready to take a standing eight count.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
“Making friends?” Tripp asked. “I’m a people person,” Adam said. “You know he’s the VP of the board, right?” “I must remember to genuflect… — Harlan Coben Copy Share
