Nobody’s Fool Quotes

“There is an old expression: A parent is only as happy as their saddest child.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“You can always say something later, but you can’t “unsay” something.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Earth is 4.6 billion years old, Sami. If you scale that down to forty-six years, do you know how long human beings have been here?” “No.” “Guess. It’s important. How long out of those forty-six years have humans roamed the earth?” “Twenty years?” “Less.” “Ten years.” He smiles and shakes his head. “Four hours. Out of forty-six years, we humans have been on this planet for a mere four hours. The industrial revolution started a minute ago. Yet we humans believe God created all this just for us.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Whenever you see a person—rich, poor, young, old, tall, short, whatever—remember one thing: That person has hopes and dreams.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Earth is 4.6 billion years old, Sami. If you scale that down to forty-six years, do you know how long human beings have been here?”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Everyone has hopes and dreams, I thought, which also means that everyone has a backstory. Every human you meet is a novel different from every other.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“evil.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Out of forty-six years, we humans have been on this planet for a mere four hours. The industrial revolution started a minute ago. Yet we humans believe God created all this just for us.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“I have been through my share of tragedies and the truth is each one gets a little easier. The first cut is indeed the deepest. You mourn so deeply, and when that wound is finally healed the scar tissue is so thick and protective that you can never quite get there again. You won’t let yourself. And so right now, as I watch the private family burial, I don’t cry.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“A parent is only as happy as their saddest child.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“about Y2K—but ends up in Chicago blocking his”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“big-time playah with da ladies.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“the end of a song more than it stops. Then a few”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“We drank. We took lots of drugs,”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“The DJ switched songs to “Murder on the Dancefloor” by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, which again in hindsight seems perhaps apropos or maybe ironic,”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“I once read that we humans are irrational because we are not well described by the rational-agent model. We believe that we make our own decisions with free will, but we don’t. Never have.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Good rule of thumb: Whenever you see a person—rich, poor, young, old, tall, short, whatever—remember one thing: That person has hopes and dreams.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“Coincidences happen more often than we know. I’ve done a lot of studying on this. Fatalism, Jung-”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool