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It's not the dead even. They're gone. Nothing you can do about that. It's what's left behind - the echo. These woods you're walking through. There are some old timers who think a sound echoes here forever. Makes sense when you think about it. That Billingham kid. I'm sure he screamed. He screams, it echoes, just bounces back and forth, the sound getting smaller and smaller, but never entirely disappearing. Like a part of his is still calling out, even now.Harlan Coben
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Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.Harlan Coben
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You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships. You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.Harlan Coben
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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.Harlan Coben
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In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history books as the worst ever. The jobs still couldn’t be found, at least for most people. Everett itself–the smaller, poorer, little brother lying north of Seattle–ached with the unemployed and the hopeless. The labor union tensions in the woods still festered and got bloody at times. But Skybillings–and the railroad logging shows of the Cascade Mountains–felt like they were, inch-by-inch, rebuilding America.Ronald Geigle
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I kept glancing at her animated face, scrunched up as though imitating an adult. I got hit with that overwhelming feeling. It sneaked up on me. Parents get it from time to time. You are looking at your child and it is an ordinary moment, not like they are onstage or hitting a winning shop, just sitting there, and you look at them and you know that they are your whole life and that moves you and scares you and makes you want to stop time.Harlan Coben