1. “… it’s okay to hang out and not talk sometimes. To just be.” (Niki Burnham, Royally Jacked)
2. “But people’s façades were all too often just that.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)
3. “There is a force in human relations drawing too imperatively for denial; defying self-interest, and dragging at all anchors of duty and religion.” (James Stephens, Three Heavy Husbands)
4. “Nothing captured human interest like human tragedy.” (Dan Brown, Angels and Demons)
5. “… it was in the nature of human beings to remember pleasure with more clarity than pain.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)
6. “Nobody has yet pointed out that there is an eighth sense; and yet the sense of property is more valuable and more detestable than all the others in combination. The person who owns something is civilised.” (James Stephens, The Triangle)
7. “We can’t separate the things
we do from what we are.”
(Terry Anderson, Den of Lions – Memoirs of Seven Years)
8. “A man may outgrow his breeches, he cannot outgrow his nature: his body is never too big or too small to hold that.” (James Stephens, Three Women Who Wept)
10. “Taking was always better than not taking; that was a fundamental underpinning to all human relationships.” (Eric Van Lustbader, The Ninja)
