All Chris Bohjalian Quotes
- Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible. Down
- 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,… Allow
- Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory. Food
- The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask… Absolutely
- No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive. Alive
- I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.... Better
- He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. Almost Wholly
- 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… All
- Dead … might not be quiet at all. All
- 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… Answer
- 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… Better
- With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. Acumen
- But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want. Belive
- When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening. All
- He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. Approves
- But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are… Armenians
- 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… Chain
- 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. Days
- As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could… Absolutely
- My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital. Baby
- 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… City
- I need complete silence when I write. Complete
- I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. All
- My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. Genocide
- As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow… Accent