Chris Bohjalian

“How the Germans can remain allies with the Turks is beyond me. No European nation would ever commit the sorts of crimes…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of…

— Chris Bohjalian

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

— Chris Bohjalian

“At night, when no one's there, the dancers and the musicians on the walls come to life and there's a glamorous ball.…

— Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

— Chris Bohjalian

There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'

— Chris Bohjalian

“No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure…

— Chris Bohjalian

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

— Chris Bohjalian

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Serafina may think I’m a crazy person, but I’m not. She has her scars, too—and not only the ones I saw when…

— Chris Bohjalian

I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even…

— Chris Bohjalian

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

— Chris Bohjalian

“The dead were too ...present.”

— Chris Bohjalian

“Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs --…

— Chris Bohjalian

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

— Chris Bohjalian

“quid pro quo,”

— Chris Bohjalian

“Nothing -- and I mean nothing, Carly Banks -- is crazy if you're in love.”

— Chris Bohjalian

“My presence scared them. I reminded them of the one thing in the world we want most to forget.”

— Chris Bohjalian

“Everything about [chance] scares the bejesus out of so many people; it's the this thing they try to avoid at all costs.…

— Chris Bohjalian

“She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Children are resilient,” Anise said, simultaneously agreeing with her friend and cutting her off. “But often their wounds simply remain invisible until,…

— Chris Bohjalian

“If we are lucky, we can find a moment on the 31st to take a deep breath and sit very still. We…

— Chris Bohjalian

As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or…

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

“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…

— Chris Bohjalian