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“Man plans and God laughs,”
― Harlan Coben, Home

“When you’re young you don’t get how great it is to be loved unconditionally.”
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“Myron likes to say that even the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.”
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“Der mentsh trakht un got lakht. Translation: Man plans and God laughs.”
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“Here are two short articles on how to seduce your man: ―"Ask him if he wants to have sex". And: ―Say, "Yes, that would be nice.”
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“If I have to cheer for you to know I’m proud,” Dad once told Myron, “then I’m doing something wrong.” Never”
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“Some people are conduits for misery.”
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“a good refresher. In simple”
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“just put the gun down. Let’s go home. Please.” “My God,” Sheriff Yiannikos said under his breath, “he’s going to do it.” Myron could see that too. He debated making a move, sprinting toward the boy, but there”
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“Man plans and God laughs,” Myron said. Fat Gandhi smiled. “I like that one. Is that an American expression?” “Yiddish.”
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“A permanent companion. You may run a few steps ahead, but that day is always there, tapping you on the shoulder, pulling at your sleeve.”
― Harlan Coben, Home

“Dad started to make his way up the stands. He always took the back row. He didn’t want to be the center of attention. Dad never yelled, never called out, never “coached,” never rode referees, never moaned, never complained. He might clap. When he got really excited during a big game, when Myron would hit a big shot, he might say, “Nice pass, Bob,” or something like that, deflecting the praise. Dad never cheered for his own son. It simply wasn’t done. “If I have to cheer for you to know I’m proud,” Dad once told Myron, “then I’m doing something wrong.”
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“Let’s live on the edge, old friend. That’s where all the goodies reside.”
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“We as a society have many prejudices, but there are very few of our fellow citizens we stigmatize and judge less charitably than what we consider to be “large” women.”
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“Everyone is their own universe—a life, a dream, a hope, a sorrow, a joy, a surprise, a revelation, a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end—even when they simply walk by you on the street.”
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“went back and helped her clean up. The police were able to find enough remains to identify, even ten years later, my cousin Rhys. That will never happen with Nancy Moore. No one will ever find the slightest trace. Oh, there will be sightings. An anonymous call will claim they saw her on a beach in Fiji. Someone else will say she’s living in a monastery in the hills of Tuscany. Or perhaps someone will spot her in London, where Zorra is currently paying a visit to a certain rotund pedophile.”
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“Friedman, Rick Friedman (the two Friedmans are not related—at least, I don’t think they are), Selina Walker, Ben Sevier, Christine Ball, Jamie Knapp, Carrie Swetonic, Stephanie Kelly, Lisa Erbach Vance, Diane Discepolo, Craig Coben, and Anne Armstrong-Coben, MD. The stories of Mickey Bolitar and his friends Ema and Spoon can be found in the trilogy of young adult novels Shelter, Seconds Away, and Found. I think you adults will like them too. Myron appears in that series too, because turnabout is fair play. The author also wants to acknowledge Joe Corless,”
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“you have to be ready for pain. One doesn’t come without the other. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t have to worry about losing you.”
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“There was a rifle on his lap.
"Hey, Hunter," Myron said.”
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“They stood there, the two of them—the mother of a dead boy holding firm to the boy who had killed him.”
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“This pain is better than the pain of giving up on him. A mother doesn’t give up on her child. So I can live with the pain. I can’t live with giving up.”
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“The not knowing—the hope—has become more painful than death. And that just makes the tragedy all the more obscene. It is horrible enough that you make a mother suffer like”
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“I might be good at what I do, but despite the fact that King’s Cross station is indeed where Harry Potter headed off for Hogwarts, I do not possess an invisibility cloak.”
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“bent down closer to”
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“Above, the cars roar past, oblivious to what is below them.”
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“Eurostar and even a plaque for Platform 9¾, where Harry Potter boarded the train for Hogwarts. Much of the so-called undesirable element have fled these dangerous in-person transactions for the relative safety of online commerce—much less need for the risky drive-by sex trade, yet another positive by-product of the Internet—but if you go to the other side of the literal and figurative tracks, away from those shiny new towers, there are still places where the sleaze element”
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“According to Vada,”
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“Both fathers, Hunter Moore, a physician, and Chick Baldwin, a hedge fund manager, were summoned from their places of work.”
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“Modern man, more afraid of embarrassment sometimes than safety, often ignores it at his own peril.”
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“Things become clichés because they are apropos.” “Breaks”
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