"Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy……" — Harlan Coben
"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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98 Quotes by Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben has 98 quotes on this site.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments…
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A…
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most…
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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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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids…
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or…
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the…
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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…
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
— John O. Brennan
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
— Charles Darwin
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
— William Hazlitt
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
— George Washington
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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