Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn’t. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in between? Unknowable, it seemed.… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“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… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
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… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,” — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation.… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.” — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“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… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
