Stay Close Quotes

“A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“... She looks really happy."
"Everyone looks happy on Facebook."
"I know, right? What's up with that?”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Well now everything dies, baby that’s a fact. But maybe everything that dies, someday comes back. — Bruce Springsteen, “Atlantic City”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“According to the chalkboard, tonight was “Ladies Night” featuring “Dollar Drafts for Chicks,” a marketing ploy that drew in, it appeared, a certain female clientele. For example, one straw-haired woman, who was cackle-laughing in a “notice me” manner, wore a yellow T-shirt that read “Sloppy Seconds,” which, alas, seemed all too apropos. Megan”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“ARTERIES HARDENED AND LUNGS blackened just by opening the door of the Weak Signal Bar and Grill. The seedy crowd brought plenty of colorful terminology to mind, but “health conscious” and “long life span” were not among them.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Everything,” she said. Her mouth tightened. “Stewart Green was a psychopath. He stalked me. He beat me. He threatened to kill me.” “Why?” “What part of the word ‘psychopath’ confused you?”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Okay, okay, no need for theatrics.” “No need,” Harry said with a bright smile, “but why not throw them in if I can?”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“You look like several large orangutans made you their love slave.” Ah”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Some people are drawn to trouble. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Every kid, Megan thought, is a frustrated lawyer, finding loopholes, demanding impossible levels of proof, attacking even the most minute of minutia.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“I ran down the hill. I went to your place, afraid, I don’t know. I just didn’t know. But you were gone.
I came here, to Lucy. I thought maybe you’d be hiding inside or something. I waited. But you never
showed, of course. I searched for you.For years. I didn’t know if you were dead or alive. I saw your
face on every street, in every bar.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Oh, honey, I’m as messed up as the rest. I just learned not to care so much. You know? We fight wars for freedom, right, and then what do we do with that freedom? We tie ourselves down with possessions and debt”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“We get cancer or heart attacks, but mental illnesses are almost by definition beyond our grasp.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“He didn’t really see or process things unless he could photograph them. He saw the world through that lens.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“First off,” Ray said, “there’s a fine line between romance and restraining order. You got that?”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“That was how it worked out. When man abandoned, nature moved in and took back what was rightfully hers.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“She knew what will come next with these mothers—picking the right preschool as though it were a life ’n’ death decision, waiting in the pickup line, positioning their kids for the elite playdates, Little Gym classes, karate lessons, lacrosse practice, French immersion courses, constant carpools. The happy turns to harried, and the harried becomes routine.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Why do we insist that there can only be one “us,” one life that makes us up in our entirety? Why can’t we have more than one identity? And why do we have to destroy one life in order to create another? We claim to long for the “well rounded,” the Renaissance man or woman inside all of us, yet our only variety is cosmetic. In reality we do all we can to smother that spirit out, to make us conform, to define us as one thing and one thing only.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“KEN FOUND A QUIET BOOTH toward the back of La Crème, one that gave him a pretty poor view of the dancers but a great view of the older barmaid who’d brought Detective Broome to this den of sin. Earlier Ken had managed to get close enough to hear snippets of the conversation between Detective Broome and the barmaid he called Lorraine. She clearly knew a lot. She was clearly emotional about it. And, he thought, she clearly was not telling all. Ken was so happy, nearly giddy with joy over his upcoming nuptials. He considered various ways to pop the question. This job would pay well, and he’d use the money to buy her the biggest diamond he could find. But the big question was: How should he pop the question? He didn’t want anything cheesy like those men who propose on stadium scoreboards. He wanted something grand yet simple, meaningful yet fun. She was so wonderful, so special, and if any place could hammer that fact home, it was here at this alleged gentlemen’s club. The women here were grotesque. He didn’t understand why any man would want any of them. They looked dirty and diseased and fake, and part of Ken wondered whether men came here for other reasons, not sexual, to feel something different”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“You know what sucks about being a mother?” “Diapers?” “Well, yes. But I mean now. Now that they are older and more or less real human beings.” “What?” “You live for their smile.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“So now Lorraine did TV interviews. The fascination with her was endless. Her natural likability came out because you simply can’t teach that.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Life started pissing on my husband like he was the only urinal in the club. And how does my little man react? He pounds the hell out of the one person who still cares about him. Ironic, don’t you think?” Broome”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“She shook her head. “It’s all so… I don’t know… meh. Are you going to try to stall time hoping someone will rescue you?” “Not my style.” “Good, because it would really be gauche. Don’t worry, though. It’ll all become clear soon enough.” “What will become clear?” “My plan. And I need to tell it my way. I need you to listen, Broome. If you ever had any feelings for me, you’ll try to open your mind a little here, okay?” “Do I have a choice?” “I guess not, what with me having the gun and all. But I’m tired, Broome. It’s been a good run, but it’s coming to an end. I just want… I want you to listen to me. That’s all. Let me start at the beginning and maybe you’ll see where I’m going with this, okay?” Lorraine seemed so sincere. She waited for him to answer, so he said, “Okay.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“My client is trussed up like an S-and-M prop,” Flair countered. “She’s in no danger.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“How are you feeling?” he asked. “Like I kissed a bus.” He”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“The arm was the worst of it; it felt as though it’d been mangled by a tiger and then jammed into a blender set on pulverize. A blacksmith was mercilessly using her skull as an anvil. Her tongue and mouth had the dryness of both the Sahara and the worst hangover imaginable. Megan”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close

“Del tried to concentrate on the Celtics and Sixers, and, surprising himself, he could. Funny how life worked.”
― Harlan Coben, Stay Close