Deal Breaker Quotes

“Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"
Win?"
Yeah."
You okay?"
Hello?"
Win?"
Yeah."
What took you so long to answer the phone?"
Hello?"
Win?"
Who is this?"
Myron."
Myron Bolitar?"
How many other Myrons do you know?"
Myron Bolitar?"
No, Myron Rockefeller."
Something's wrong," Win said.
What?"
Terribly wrong."
What are you talking about?"
Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend."
Sorry, I forgot the time.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi."
"You're really cute."
"I don't have any money."
She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“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.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Something’s wrong,” Win said. “What?” “Terribly wrong.” “What are you talking about?” “Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend.” “Sorry, I forgot the time.” Win was not what one would call a morning person.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“A man must try to illuminate even those who prefer to sit in the darkness.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“But he had known he was there. With Win you just knew. One of life’s constants.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“He walked purposely, the way cops”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“The fact that Esperanza Diaz was Latina, without a trace of American Indian blood,”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Back straight. Bottom of tongue curled up against the back of the upper teeth. He breathed in through his nose for six seconds, concentrating on pushing the air down into the pit of his gut, making sure that his chest did not move, that only his abdomen expanded. Then he held the air down deep, counting to himself to prevent his mind from wandering. After seven seconds he slowly released the air through the mouth for a ten count, making sure to empty completely his contracting gut. Then he waited four seconds before breathing in again.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“He called his mother on the car phone and reassured her he was okay. She told him to call his father, he was the worried one. Myron called his father and reassured him he was okay. He told him to call his mother, she was the worried one. Great communication. The secret to a happy marriage.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“The way he looked at it, he’d been born with all his fingers and toes, he didn’t have a harelip or a cauliflower ear or a limp of any kind - so to compensate for his lack of ill fortune, his parents had christened him Myron.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“people?”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“A tall woman in a blue business suit and fancy sunglasses strolled purposefully down the sidewalk. Myron smiled at her, and she returned it. He would have preferred a faint or even a small swoon, but you can't have everything.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Ligou para sua mãe pelo telefone do carro e garantiu que estava bem. Ela lhe pediu que ligasse para o pai, ele é que estava preocupado. Myron ligou para o pai e garantiu que estava bem. Ele o mandou ligar para mãe, ela é que estava preocupada. Comunicação perfeita, o segredo de um casamento feliz”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“The press could not help themselves. They attacked like ravenous relatives around a buffet table.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Look, you know I was never very close to my father,’ she continued. ‘He wasn’t an easy man to love. He was far better with his corpses than with breathing entities. He liked the ideal of family, the concept -it was the actual execution he found wearisome. But I still have to find out the truth. For Kathy.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Jessica Culver sat in her family’s kitchen, in the very seat she had sat in innumerable times as a child. She should have known better. She should have thought it through, should have come prepared for any occurrence. But what had she done instead? She had gotten nervous. She had hesitated. She had stopped for a drink in the bar below his office. Stupid, stupid.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“Whores hung out the windows like shreds of leftover Christmas decorations.”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“that looked like something out of an”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker

“An awkward impasse. No one knew exactly how to say good-bye. A wave? A handshake? A kiss?”
― Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker