Zitate von Harlan Coben

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

—  Harlan Coben, Promise Me

„I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Missing You

„Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Six Years

„Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Six Years

„You bring your own weather to the picnic.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Caught

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

—  Harlan Coben, buch Tell No One

„The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.“

—  Harlan Coben

„Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.“

—  Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

„…"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.“

—  Harlan Coben

„Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?“

—  Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

„Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Caught

„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?“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Caught

„Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Shelter

„There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.“

—  Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

„No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Six Years

„Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Seconds Away

„So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."
Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.“

—  Harlan Coben, buch Fade Away