The Stranger Harlan Coben Quotes

#1. They say the human body can lose 50 percent of its body parts and survive. But it depends on which parts, and which body.

Jan Ellison

#2. It be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?

Harlan Coben

#3. I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Kate Winslet

#4. The middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

Corinne Maier

#5. Apparently, both the Portuguese and Spanish found a way out of their crisis. It's called cheating on tourists!

Daniel Marques

#6. Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Samuel Johnson

#7. The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.

Robert Gottlieb

#8. Do you want romantic? I can try. I'm more of a see-it, want-it, go-for-it type of guy, and I did: see you, want you, go for you. Her

Linda Howard

#9. Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away.

Don Hutson

#11. Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

Anthony De Mello

#12. Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
- T. S. Eliot

Harlan Coben