Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 38 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Win book by Harlan Coben. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Win Quotes
I don’t get fandom in general. I never care who wins a contest in which I (or someone dear to me) am not an active participant. Why, I often wonder, would anyone?
from Win book by Harlan Coben
When you do battle, rules rapidly become null and void. Bite, kick, throw sand, use a weapon, whatever it takes. Real fights are about survival. There are no prizes or praise for sportsmanship. There is a victor. There is a loser. The end.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Most people hate silence and will do anything to break it, including saying something incriminating.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
The rich are very good at using generosity to get what they want.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
There is no bond like blood, but there is no compound as volatile either.
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I bow to no man. Respect, yes. Bow, no.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
I like violence. I like it a lot. I don’t condone it for others. I condone it for me. I don’t fight as a last resort. I fight whenever I can. I don’t try to avoid trouble. I actively seek it out.
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I am rather small boned and, from a distance, appear frail – a bully’s irresistibly tasty morsel. It is only when you get close to me that you sense there is considerable coil under the clothes. But by then, it is usually too late. You’ve seen the easy mark, you’ve laughed about me with your friends, you can’t back out.
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Not all overly attentive boyfriends are psychos – but all psychos are overly attentive boyfriends.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Women have been conditioned to please. We are responsible not just for ourselves but everyone in our orbit. We think it is our job to comfort the man. We think we can make things better by sacrificing a bit of ourselves.
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If you’re ready to end it, end it. Make a clean break and don’t look back.
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These men – sorry, I don’t want to sound sexist, but they are almost always men – are insecure losers of biblical proportions.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
I make every woman feel as though she is the only one in the world. It is not an act. A woman will sense if you lack authenticity. While we are together, this woman and I, it is just us two. The world is gone. My focus is total.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Sex may be the greatest shared experience in the world. Yes, I enjoy going out for a gourmet meal or a good show or the company of dear friends. I appreciate golf and music and art. But do any of those compare to an evening of sex? Methinks not.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
I don’t fly private or have a driver because I crave more comfort in my life. I spend the money on those items because at the end of your life, you will crave more of what the annoying experts coin “quality time.” That’s what private jets and chauffeur-driven cars allow you to do. I have the ability to buy time – and that, when you think about it, is the closest thing to buying happiness and longevity.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
I find every human being is a tale if you ask the right questions.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Relationships are never fifty-fifty. Sometimes they are sixty-forty, sometimes eighty-twenty. You’ll be the eighty sometimes, you’ll be the twenty others. The key is to accept and be okay with that.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Memories aren’t kept on some microchip in the skull or filed away in a cabinet somewhere deep in our cranium. Memories are something we reconstruct and piece together. They are fragments we manufacture to create what we think occurred or even simply hope to be true. In short, our memories are rarely accurate. They are biased reenactments. Shorter still: We all see what we want to see.
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My relationships with men are like a wild buckaroo ride at a rodeo – it’s exciting and crazy and I know it’s going to be me who gets thrown off in the end and breaks a rib when I smack the ground.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
There is an odd psychology amongst those who inherit great wealth, because deep down inside, they realize that they did nothing to earn it, that it really was just a matter of luck, and yet how can it be that they are not special?
from Win book by Harlan Coben
The humpback never sees the hump in his own back.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
That’s the trouble with your generation. You always want to unearth unpleasantness. You think dragging the ugly out in the sunlight will destroy it. It doesn’t. Just the opposite. You give the ugly thing life nourishment.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
This is how I was taught to investigate. You ask questions. You poke around and perhaps you jar something loose.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Human beings always do what is in their self-interest. Always. That’s the sole motivator. People only do the “right thing” when it suits those interests. Yes, that is cynical, but it is also true. If you want to change minds, the secret is not being thoughtful or respectful or conciliatory or presenting cogent indisputable facts to show that said mind is wrong. And for those truly in the naïve camp, the secret is not trying to appeal to our better angels or “humanity.” None of that works. The only way to change someone’s opinion is to make them believe that siding with you is in their best interest. Period. The end.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
You need to break a few eggs to make an omelet. I don’t know if that’s true, but if you break the eggs, better to make an omelet than a mess.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
In the past, those headlines would have lasted for days, weeks, even months. Not today. Today our attention span is that of a child receiving a new toy. We play with it intensely for a day, maybe two, and then we grow bored and see another new toy and throw this one under the bed and forget all about it.
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In the end, every news story, and yes, I’m moving if not mixing my metaphors, is a burning fire – if you don’t feed it a new log, it dies out.
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It’s funny what you forget. Or what you make yourself forget. Except, I guess, you never totally forget, do you? You want to forget, and you even do forget, but you don’t. Am I making sense?
from Win book by Harlan Coben
People used to buy the “everyone is equal” rationale we Americans brilliantly sold throughout our esteemed history, though lately more and more get what has always been obvious: Money tilts all scales. Money is power.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
When your child is born, your life changes forever. That’s why I avoided fatherhood. I don’t want something in my life I care about more than me.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Two of our biggest delusions are that “loyalty” and “keeping promises” are admirable qualities. They are not. They are oft an excuse to do the wrong thing and to protect the wrong person because you are supposed to be “a man of your word” or have a bond with or allegiance to someone who deserves neither. Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics.
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The stupidest men are the ones who think they can’t be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don’t know what they don’t know.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Life is a series of close calls, of weighing pros and cons.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
I know it appears that I am casual with sex, but the truth is very much the opposite. Sex is sacred to me. It is the closest thing I will ever know to religious euphoria.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Too much is made of “live every moment to its fullest.” It is an unrealistic goal, one that leads to more stress than satisfaction. The secret to fulfillment is not about exciting adventures or living out loud – no one can maintain that kind of pace – but in welcoming and even relishing the quiet and familiar.
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When you’re young, you don’t realize how thin the line is between colorful and crazy.
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Life is lived in the grays. That is a problem for most people. It is so much easier to see the world in black and white. Someone is all good or all bad.
from Win book by Harlan Coben
Extremism and outrage are simple, relentless, attention-seeking. Rationality and prudence are difficult, exhausting, mundane.
from Win book by Harlan Coben