Hold Tight

by Harlan Coben

Marianne drank. She drank for many reasons. Most of the time it was to party. She had been in too many places like this, looking to hook up and hoping it would come to more.

“The Bible forbids incest. The answer lies in science. That’s what I mean. Science and religion can indeed coexist. It’s all about Darwin’s theory of evolution.”

Interesting dialogue

“What I’m doing here is trying to explain that all the smarty-pants with their science degrees who believe that religion is not compatible with science are lacking in imagination. That’s the problem. Scientists just look through their microscopes. Religionists just look at the words on the page. Neither is seeing the forest in spite of the trees.”

He was no longer a child, barely an adolescent, really, moving too hard and too fast into adulthood.

Foreshadowing

“Are you saying that a person is entitled to their secrets?” “Of course they are.” She looked at him then, in a funny way, and he didn’t much like it. “Do you have secrets?” she asked him.

Now all Hell is about to break loose

“I love you,” she said. “I love you too.” And with that they agreed to spy on their oldest child.