I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. -
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. -
I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. -
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. -
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
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- Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.
- The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
- No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.