"Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell." ― Harlan Coben Topic(s): Hope More From Harlan Coben "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." "I’d never had money growing up, and it’s never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that." "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." More In Hope "Jim Thorpe is someone I’ve always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I’d love to play him. And then there’s a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it’s sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through."― Channing Tatum "A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope."― Christopher Hitchens "There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."― Emma Goldman