Chris Bohjalian Quotes
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.
My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.
When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?).
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
So you’re positive the killer is a man.”“Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don’t cut out other women’s hearts.”“We can.
Seriously, ” the banker went on, “what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.”“Murder.
In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.