Harlan Coben Quotes

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

I'm a family man, and I couldn't be happier. My wife and I have been blessed with an incredible family, and my kids are my life.

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

I'm at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I've got my dogs as surrogates, but I'm ready for kids.

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

I love domestic life.

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.

I've got a home. I've got a wife. I've got everything I need.

I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy?

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.