One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)

by Harlan Coben

Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.

Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate. We can pity. But we cannot fully grasp.

politicians make awfully good thespians—but

There is nothing as heavy as grief. Grief is the deepest pit in the blackest ocean, the bottomless ravine. It is all-consuming. It suffocates. It paralyzes as no severed nerve could.