19 Quotes by Olen Steinhauer

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

People are all the same. We need a personal reason to get our asses off the couch.

Do not always assume motive where human error will suffice.

God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise – So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise.

Eighty percent of an Agency brain is devoted to repercussions and possible futures, even when you’re just thinking about moving in with your boyfriend.

Perhaps it’s only those who don’t know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

Her hands stretch across the table and squeeze the fingers of my left hand. “I’ve got my bestest lover here, and we’re talking about things that no longer exist for me. It’s like discussing dreams we’ve had.

Jasenovac concentration camp, which had been the largest “place of extermination” in fascist Croatia during the Second World War. “No one know exact number, but some say a million murdered there. They killing Jews and Gypsies, but most was Serbs.