No Second Chance Quotes

“Fame is more addictive than crack. Adults who lose fame--one-hit wonders, for example--usually tailspin into depression, though they try to act like they're above it. They don't want to admit the truth. Their whole life is a lie, a desperate scramble for another dose of that most potent of drugs. Fame”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“They - bliss and fear - are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“But grief likes to hide behind bushes. It enjoys leaping out of nowhere, startling you, mocking you, stripping away your pretense of normalcy. Grief lulls you to sleep, thus making that blindside hit all the more jarring.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“I look at her, then at Tasha, and I feel the wondrous blend of bliss and fear. They--bliss and fear--are constant companions. Rarely does one venture out without the other.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“I look at the helpless bundle in the crib and she looks up at me and I wonder what I would not
do to protect her. I would lay down my life in a second. And truth be told, if push came to shove, I would lay down yours too.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“I can only be as happy as my saddest child. Do”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“The person who works with the poor? They are usually more selfish. We are not willing to sacrifice our needs. Working a job that provides for our families is not enough for us. Supporting those we love is secondary. We need personal satisfaction, even if our own family is made to do without. Those suits I now watch numbingly board the NJ Transit train? They often hate where they are going and what they are doing, but they do it anyway. They do it to take care of their families, to provide a better life for their spouses, their children, and maybe, just maybe, their aging and ill parents.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“Adolescence is always a war, no one gets out unscathed.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“You're never fully cured. Something happens - a trigger and you fall back into bad patterns.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“Death was supposed to bring solitude. Death was supposed to bring the peace she found so elusive in life.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“Like grief, hope hides and pounces and taunts and never leaves. I am not sure which of the two is the crueler mistress.”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“But in the end, survival was what mattered. Pretty words and justification were great during times of peace. In times of war, in times of life and death, it was simpler: Us or Them”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance

“can only be as happy as my saddest”
― Harlan Coben, No Second Chance