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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
— Harlan Coben
As we got closer to Notre Dame, I said, "Would you be embarrassed if I rounded my shoulders, dragged my left leg, and shouted, 'Sanctuary!
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Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.
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This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Always better to be cautious. Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. Shane
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It be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?
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Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya
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Spend money to make money.
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Amazing what humans, even ones as wanton as Frank Ache, crave when left alone - other humans.
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Ten-A-Fly took off his sunglasses as if they'd angered him. His scowl aimed for intimidation but seemed more in the neighborhood of constipation. "So
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Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.
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Megan looked into Agnes's frightened face. Agnes had been so sharp just a few years back - funny and cutting and wonderfully ribald.
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What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?
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Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
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Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.
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A Spoon swoon, if you will.
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The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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But see, feminism isn't about helping a fellow sister. It's about an equal playing field. It's about giving women choices, not guarantees." Tia
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The humpback never sees the hump on his own back.
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Dreams are fragile. Dreams don't last.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Way to nail Cozone. Her cell phone buzzed as
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With choice comes guilt. No escaping it.
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Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once
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By the time Myron was forced to return, their clients were scattering into the night like kitchen help during an immigration bust.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi
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The Newark train station is about as romantic as a pile of hippo dung with head lice.
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So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
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Billy Joel was on the radio, singing, "I love you just the way you are." Big talk, Myron mused, when you've been married to Christie Brinkley.
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I don't remember how big the balloons were. I was a kid then. Everything looks bigger when you're a kid.
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Parenting. It ain't for sissies.
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I found something in Mercer's room," Walker said in a voice as gray as a tombstone. "I think it belongs to Haley McWaid.
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An awkward impasse. No one knew exactly how to say good-bye. A wave? A handshake? A kiss?
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
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You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.
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He called us." "Dominick Rochester?" "Yes." "When?" "Last night. He said he met with you." Met, Myron thought. Nice euphemism.
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Wow." "You've got quite the vocabulary." "Never use a big word when a small one will suffice." "I could make a crack here, but I won't.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?
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Matt rested his head against the bus window, the vibration working like a strange massage.
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Why do humans never really learn the lessons we are supposed to? What is in our makeup, in fact, that draws us to that which should sicken us?
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It's been a long day." "It's only nine in the morning." Myron said, "For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?
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Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.
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Looked me straight in the eye and spoke an indisputable truth: You don't know my life.
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I don't care about other kids. Only mine.
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Death teaches you that. You would give anything, forgive anything, for just one more second. . . .
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When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.
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Liz Gorman, a fiery redhead, had been one of the founding members of the Raven Brigade.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.
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Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.
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Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
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Myron was playing Mr. Bureaucrat to the hilt; nothing made a person feel more impotent. There is no darker pit than the blank stare of a bureaucrat.
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Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.
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You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad.
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tilted her head, like a dog hearing a strange sound. "Does pain happen if you don't remember it?" Kat
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Secrets...were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk.
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There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
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You want this so badly - this second chance, this chance at real redemption - that you can't see the truth." "What
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Every kid, Megan thought, is a frustrated lawyer, finding loopholes, demanding impossible levels of proof, attacking even the most minute of minutia.
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Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago - the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.
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When Myron was ten years old, his father had taken him and his younger brother, Brad, to a game. Brad was five at the time. Dad had secured
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He looked maybe half an egg sandwich away from a coronary.
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We always seem to be on the eve of destruction. And we always seem to get through it.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Some people are conduits for misery.
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On the outside, he's all cold and detached," she said. "But underneath that - way down deep inside - he's all cold and detached.
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Esperanza's side had so many colors, Crayola sent a scout.
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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.
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You can only be strong for so long.
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Whatever else a father is in this life - cop, fireman, Indian chief - he provides for his family. He
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A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.
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He checked his watch. "One more drink," Win said. "And then I will go in the other room because - oh, you'll love this - Mee so horny." I
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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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Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.
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Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
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In the movies, killers are omnipotent.
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