Quotes by Chris Bohjalian

About Chris Bohjalian:

Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of 15 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.
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But for most of the world- for most of Vermont- the Cape Abenaki meltdown is just another bit of old news. Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callo...

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Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband's. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick. All households had their mysteries, their particul...

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A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm supposed to be doing something else--but I also c...

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With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

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Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens...

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The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual rec...

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Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

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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.

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But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

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She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

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And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

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In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park. And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

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People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

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My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

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If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

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Author Bio

  • NameChris Bohjalian
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • BornAugust 12, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Armenia
  • ProfessionNovelist