Harlan Coben

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a…

— Harlan Coben

“There are various theories about why the years seem to pass faster as you get older. The most popular is also the…

— Harlan Coben

“I can only be as happy as my saddest child. Do”

— Harlan Coben

If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book…

— Harlan Coben

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and…

— Harlan Coben

“Mayor Gusherowski approached Adam with a Guy Smiley smile—the perfect blend of game show host and Muppet. “Wonderful to meet you, Adam!”…

— Harlan Coben

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

“Life, he suspected, hinges too often on chance. We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education…

— Harlan Coben

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves…

— Harlan Coben

“Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment and do everything you can to protect it.”

— Harlan Coben

“Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else.”

— Harlan Coben

“What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?”

— Harlan Coben

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

— Harlan Coben

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

— Harlan Coben

“We get mad at someone for cutting us off in traffic or for taking too long to order at Starbucks or for…

— Harlan Coben

“His world was wobbly but back on the axis.”

— Harlan Coben

“Casual affairs never interested him. Every girl he met was gauged as a potential life partner, a soul mate, an undying love,…

— Harlan Coben

“There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song…

— Harlan Coben

“Somewhere along the way, Adam had learned to not worry about what he couldn’t control, to let go. This had been a…

— Harlan Coben

“You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it’s almost impossible to comprehend.”

— Harlan Coben

“You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.”

— Harlan Coben

“It’s late. I’m tired.” “Are you out of your mind?” “Stop.” “What?” Corinne turned back to him. “You feel it too, don’t…

— Harlan Coben

“Do you believe in love at first sight? Neither do I. I do, however, believe in major, more-than-just-physical attraction at first sight.…

— Harlan Coben

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

— Harlan Coben

“perhaps the greatest lesson was also the simplest: Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment…

— Harlan Coben