Hope
1. “It is silly not to hope.” (Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea)
2. “Even in the grave all was not lost. Else there is no immortality for men.” (Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum)
3. “I hope, or I could not live.” (H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau)
4. “I don’t mind working hard when there’s hope.” (John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes)
Houses
5. “All old houses have ghost legends, and they are all poppycock!” (Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear)
6. “A vacant house has an aura all its own.” (Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi – Book One: The Way of the Samurai)
Human Nature
7. “But human nature is a complicated thing. What we think is a small matter for one person may be a matter of life and death to another. Sometimes meaningless words pour forth from our lips, because we think that they are of no real importance… but the other party may take them as seriously as life itself.” (Malai Choopinit, Rising Flood)
8. “Watching fires, especially those you’ve started yourself, is as basic a human instinct as throwing stones at water.” (Gavin Lyall, The Secret Servant)
9. “The human heart is vast enough to contain the whole world.” (Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim)
10. “The only thing I ever said was that human nature is much the same in a village as anywhere else, only one has opportunities and leisure for seeing it at close quarters.” (Agatha Christie, The Companion)
