I Will Find You Quotes

“We are all so luxuriously stupid when things are good in our life.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Memory is often our most imaginative storyteller.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“used to quote Voltaire to me: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Stupid. So stupid. We are all so luxuriously stupid when things are good in our life.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“All men, Gertrude believed, tended to have some sociopathic qualities coupled with a wonderful ability to self-justify any behavior.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Things change and yet everything stays the same.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Memories always sting, don’t they? The good ones most of all.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“We take for granted what we become used to. Human nature.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Grief rarely attacks from the front. It prefers to sneak up on you when you least expect it.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“We don’t really care about others, except when convenient. Don’t believe it?”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Voltaire to me: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“He asks me about that, about how a man who could have done such evil could also be kind. I try to explain to him that human beings are more complex than we know, but of course, I don’t really have an answer.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Remember that spring break when we took the family plane to that mansion in Antigua? Your face, Rachel. You loved it. You loved the parties. You loved the power. It’s part of why we became close. So yes, my plan was to impregnate you. Why would you want some anonymous donor sperm when you can have mine?” “Someone special in the eyes of God,” she added. “Exactly. Great genes. Someone who cares about you. It made perfect sense.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“yada,”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“The American economy relies more on the con than we like to think.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“You celebrated one another’s victories and mourned their defeats. You were one. You were family.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Memory is often our most imaginative storyteller. So maybe, probably, I didn’t “sense” anything at all.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Spoiler alert:”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“We don’t really care about others, except when convenient.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“You believe you are safe. You are certain that you considered every angle, thought about every possibility. But you didn't. Not ever. The world doesn't work that way.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Memories always sting, don't they? The good ones most of all.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“We only do the right thing when it doesn't cost us.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“to make yourself numb, to not let yourself feel or experience anything remotely connected to pleasure. It helps really. It kept me alive.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“The commercials—buy gold, get a second mortgage, consolidate your debt, invest in crypto—all seemed like legal versions of Ponzi schemes to her. The American economy relies more on the con than we like to think.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Good morning, Staaaaaar-shine! The earth says hello…”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“The American economy relies more on the con than we like to think”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“The guy likes you, wants to sleep with you, doesn’t get to, settles on being a friend, the tension goes away.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Surroundings are irrelevant. Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“we have a legal system to remedy these things. A perfect system? No. In your free time, you can go through all the prisons and find innocent people who have been incarcerated and help free them. Do it. I’ll admire it. But don’t break them out of prison, Max. Don’t give them guns. Don’t let them destroy whatever is left of our tattered,”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You

“Why such a man would care to find a boy fitting this specific profile was a question no one at the orphanage dared to ask. Why? Simple. Because the Paynes funded the orphanage. Whatever their shortcomings, the facts were the facts: No Paynes, no orphanage, no saved children, no jobs.”
― Harlan Coben, I Will Find You