Hold Tight Quotes

“Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“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.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“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

“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

“I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and listens and cries. Music does that to her...I didn't understand for a long time. But I do now. The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“They say possesions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly, not sure which direction you're heading in. Your steps are tentative but they are still blind in the night. You don't realize how close you are to the edge, how the soft earth could give away, how you could just slip a bit and suddenly plunge into the dark.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“It was all so damn fragile, that was the thing. Obvious, for sure,but for the most part we block - we refuse to think about how easily our lives could be torn asunder, because when we recognize it, we lose our minds. The ones who are fearful all the time, who need to medicate to function? It is because they understand the reality, how thin the line is. It isn't that they can't accept the truth - its that they can't block it.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“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?”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Ambition is natural when you don't have anything. You know what you're driving for.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“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”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Well, if you did, you’d be wrong. It is much, much smaller. Try this: Imagine you’re still holding that tiny grain of sand. Now not just the beach you are on, but all the beaches all over the planet, all of them, all down the coast of California and the East Coast from Maine down to Florida and on the Indian Ocean and off the coasts of Africa. Imagine all that sand, all those beaches everywhere in the world and now look at that grain of sand you’re holding and still, still, our entire solar system—forget our planet—is smaller than that compared to the rest of the universe. Can you even comprehend how insignifi- cant we are?”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Bir kadın bir çift pahalı ayakkabı satın aldığında bu parayla açlıktan nefesi kokan birine yardım etmeyi düşünmez bile. … Rahat bir hayat süreceğiz diye hepimiz öldürürüz.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Most people assumed that it would be the opposite—that the victim of such horrific violence would naturally be repulsed by any future bloodshed. But the truth was, the world does not work that way. Violence breeds violence—but not just in the obvious, retaliatory way. The molested child grows up to become the adult molester. The son traumatized by his father abusing his mother is far more likely to one day beat his own wife. Why? Why do we 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?”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Someone is always worse off than you. That never seemed like much comfort.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“I’m explaining something to you. I didn’t understand for a long time. But I do now. The sad songs are a safe hurt. It’s a diversion. It’s controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it’s not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can’t prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Tremont smirked. “Oh, right, my bad. A dead hooker is priority number one. We treat her like the governor’s wife was just whacked.” “That attitude, Frank. It’s why I’m here.” “Right, sure, that’s why. Let me tell you how people look at dead hookers.” “Don’t tell me—like they’re asking for it?” “No. But listen and you might learn: If you don’t want to end up dead by a Dumpster, don’t turn tricks in the Fifth Ward.” “You ought to make that your epitaph,” Muse said.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Shelter”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

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

“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.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“At the end of the day, the information is packaged and a report will be e-mailed to you. It will show you everything—every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. If Adam does a PowerPoint or creates a Word document, it will show you that too. Everything. You could watch him live-time if you want.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“He was no longer a child, barely an adolescent, really, moving too hard and too fast into adulthood.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“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.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight