--- title: "1 Personal Library Quotes By Chris Bohjalian" description: "1 Personal Library quotes by Chris Bohjalian. Plus more from Chris Bohjalian and more Personal Library sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b7/chris-bohjalian-8312_austen_if-you-look-at-my-personal-library-you-w_802493.jpg" --- > [If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/if-you-look-at-my-personal-library-you-will-notice-that-it-ranges/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b7/chris-bohjalian-8312_austen_if-you-look-at-my-personal-library-you-w_802493.jpg) ## More by Chris Bohjalian > [I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/i-think-the-most-important-lesson-isn-t-necessarily-to-try-and-write/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/the-honest-answer-is-more-complex-on-some-level-i-was-sent-or/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/a-term-came-to-her-that-they-used-on-occasion-at-the-shelter-the/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/but-history-does-matter-there-are-lines-connecting-the-armenians-and/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/what-is-most-important-to-me-is-that-my-narrator-s-voice-is/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/he-defined-himself-almost-wholly-in-the-negative-it-was-not-who-he/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/a-moment-later-all-of-the-men-at-the-party-stupefied-by-the-way-the/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/those-who-participate-in-a-genocide-as-well-as-those-who-merely-look/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/the-beatrice-that-obsessed-dante-was-a-florentine-named-bice-di-folco/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/boys-look-at-us-like-we-look-at-horses-color-height-eyes-tail-they/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/he-recalls-what-that-first-german-soldier-said-to-his-major-no-god/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“But she insists the family hadn’t a choice. Not true. We always have choices. Isn’t that what Dante teaches us? I really have become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/but-she-insists-the-family-hadn-t-a-choice-not-true-we-always-have/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [“I love it when the snowflakes are flying like butterflies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/i-love-it-when-the-snowflakes-are-flying-like-butterflies/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/why-a-ghost-story-well-i-love-them-they-re-fun-to-read-and-yes-fun-to/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) > [The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-bohjalian/the-reality-is-that-most-of-north-america-knows-next-to-nothing-of/) [Chris Bohjalian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-bohjalian/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/personal-library/chris-bohjalian/#itemlist", "name": "1 Personal Library Quotes By Chris Bohjalian", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. 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