"Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed."
-Harlan Coben
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"If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.“
-Harlan Coben
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"Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher."
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"I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless."
-Harlan Coben
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"I'm not a big sports fan."
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"You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad."
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"The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work."
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