Don't Let Go Quotes

“Every person has hopes and dreams.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“My great-grandfather, Dad often told us, saved his best wines for special occasions. He was killed when the Nazis invaded Paris. The Nazis ended up drinking his wine. Lesson: you never wait. When I was growing up, we used only the good plates. We used the best linens. We drank out of Waterford crystal. When my father died, his wine cellar was nearly empty.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Daisy wore a clingy black dress with a neckline so deep it could tutor philosophy.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“There are various theories about why the years seem to pass faster as you get older. The most popular is also the most obvious. As you get older, each year is a smaller percentage of your life. If you are ten years old, a year is ten percent. If you are fifty years old, a year is two percent. But she read a theory that spurned that explanation. The theory states that time passes faster when we are in a set routine, when we aren't learning anything new, when we stay stuck in a life pattern. They key to making time slow down is to have new experiences. You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job. You are complaining about it going away so fast because you loved it, not because it felt as though time was passing faster. If you want to slow down time, this theory holds: If you want to make the days last, do something different. Travel to exotic locales. Take a class.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education to the level of the religious.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“We have something in common now.” Augie looks a question at him. “Well, something horrible,” Tom continues. “We’ve both lost children. I know your pain now. It’s like . . . it’s like being members of the worst club imaginable.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Check out the comments underneath,” Augie says. I move the cursor down. “There are over fifty thousand of them.” “Just click ‘Top Comments’ and read a few.” I do as he asks. And as always when reading a comments section, my faith in humanity plummets:”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Some people claim that money is the root of all evil. Could be. Others say that money can't buy you happiness. That may be true. But if you handle it right, money buys you freedom and time, and those are a lot more tangible than happiness.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“I want to say something comforting, but I know that this is one of the moments when words would be like an appendix—superfluous or harmful.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“The old saw about bad news traveling fast has never been truer than in the age of the Internet.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“They take in the full experience of great loves and great tragedies without backing down or crouching into some sort of defensive stance. If life is going to punch them in the face, they stick their chins out and savor the moment. That is living life to the fullest.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“This is how detecting works. You keep going even if what you’re doing seems like a momentous waste of time and energy.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“I shall drink no wine before its time. Okay, it’s time.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Purging was part of his grieving process—”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Some claim that the first step in the grieving process is denial. Having delivered my share of life-shattering news, I have found the opposite to be true: The first step is complete and immediate comprehension. You hear the news and immediately you realize how absolutely devastating it is, how there will be no reprieve, how death is final, how your world is shattered and that you will never, ever be the same. You realize all that in seconds, no more. The realization floods into your veins and overwhelms you. Your heart breaks. Your knees buckle. Every part of you wants to give way and collapse and surrender. You want to curl up into a ball. You want to plummet down that mine shaft and never stop. That’s when the denial kicks in.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“The key to making time slow down is to have new experiences”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“For the first eighteen years of my life, I have zero memories that aren’t entangled in you. We shared a womb; then we shared a room. There was, in fact, nothing we did not share. I told you everything. Everything. There is nothing I kept from you. There is nothing I was embarrassed or ashamed to tell you because I knew you’d still love me. For everyone else, there is a bit of a facade. There has to be. But with you and me, there was none. I”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“My great-grandfather, Dad often told us, saved his best wines for special occasions. He was killed when the Nazis invaded Paris. The Nazis ended up drinking his wine. Lesson: You never wait. When I was growing up, we used only the good plates. We used the best linens. We drank out of Waterford crystal. When my father died, his wine cellar was nearly empty. “Your dad used fancier words,” Augie tells me. “I prefer a line from Groucho Marx.” “That being?” “‘I shall drink no wine before its time. Okay, it’s time.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“The faded engraving read: A Ma Vie de Coer Entier, which was a fifteenth-century French saying, “You Have My Whole Heart for My Whole Life.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“I can be over in ten minutes.” “You’ll stay for dinner?” “Depends on what’s on the tape,” I say. “Right, yeah, that makes sense.” Ellie hears something in my voice and knows me too well. “Everything else okay?” “We’ll talk.” I hang up first.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“He just said the base did boring agriculture stuff. Counting cows and crops, that’s how he put it.” “What’s the second thing?” “The closing of the base.” “Right, when was that?” “Fifteen years ago,” Kaufman says. “Three months after your brother and Augie’s daughter were found dead.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Two people, a man and your ex, Maura, are in the car,” Reynolds says. “Officer Canton pulls them over for a DUI. Something spooks them. They panic, shoot Officer Canton twice in the back of the head, take off.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“He knew. Right away. He looked at our faces and knew. They often do. Some claim that the first step in the grieving process is denial. Having delivered my share of life-shattering news, I have found the opposite to be true: The first step is complete and immediate comprehension. You hear the news and immediately you realize how absolutely devastating it is, how there will be no reprieve, how death is final, how your world is shattered and that you will never, ever be the same. You realize all that in seconds, no more. The realization floods into your veins and overwhelms you. Your heart breaks. Your knees buckle. Every part of you wants to give way and collapse and surrender. You want to curl up into a ball.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“We all bonded in tragedy. It makes you grow close—someone else who gets what you’re going through—and yet pain is always there.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“When you have grief, at least you have something. But when grief ebbs away, what’s left? You go on, and I didn’t want to go on.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“A Ma Vie de Coer Entier, which was a fifteenth-century French saying, “You Have My Whole Heart for My Whole Life.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“If you want to slow down time, this theory holds: If you want to make the days last, do something different. Travel to exotic locales. Take a class.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“Maura calling her?” I shrug.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go

“The theory states that time passes faster when we are in a set routine, when we aren’t learning anything new, when we stay stuck in a life pattern. The key to making time slow down is to have new experiences. You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job. You are complaining about it going away so fast because you loved it, not because it felt as though time was passing faster. If you want to slow down time, this theory holds: If you want to make the days last, do something different. Travel to exotic locales. Take a class.”
― Harlan Coben, Don't Let Go