Risa Hinnenkamp

“Selfless suffering feels good for short crusades, but as a way of life, it’s unsustainable.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“our cognitive abilities as adults are heavily influenced by the social environment that we experienced during childhood, making it hard to discern any influence of preexisting genetic differences.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“There was nothing ordinary about Ossie May. She was tall, sexy, smart, and pretty. Her looks and personality were her drawing cards. The flip side was her temperament. She was beauty and rage sandwiched together, and she must have invented cussing. She would unload swear word after swear word in rapid succession. There had to be a law against such offensive language.”
― Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

“People absorbed in a task, especially when it aggrandizes them somehow, are numb to the world at hand.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey