Harlan Coben

The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger on Netflix.

Harlan Coben Spring 2021

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Part of all worship is abuse. That's what I've learned. Those who love God the most also fear God the most too. ‘God- fearing,' right? The most devout who won't shut up about God's love are always the ones raving about hire and brimstone and eternal damnation. so was in love with Ry or was scared of him? I don't know how thick that line is.

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? My father suffers from this malady. “I have all this,” the thinking goes, “ergo I must be somehow superior.” This leads to a constant internal battle to maintain the false narrative of somehow deserving” all these riches, of being “worthy.” You push away the obvious truth —that fate and happenstance have more to do with your lot in life than your “brilliance” or “work ethic”— so as not to shatter your self-created myth. 

We are all masters of self-rationalization. We all seek ways to justity our narrative. We all twist that narrative to make ourselves more sympathetic. You do it too. If you are reading this, you were born in the top one percent of historys population, no question about it. You’ve experienced luxuries that painfully few people in the history of mankind could have even imagined. Yet instead of appreciating that, instead of doing more to help those beneath us, we attack those who got even luckier for not doing enough.

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