Chris Bohjalian

“quid pro quo,”

— Chris Bohjalian

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

— Chris Bohjalian

“The dead were too ...present.”

— Chris Bohjalian

“That might just mean that I had nothing better to do”

— Chris Bohjalian

“gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism”

— Chris Bohjalian

I need complete silence when I write.

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

“A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,”

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream…

— Chris Bohjalian

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— Chris Bohjalian

I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants…

— Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it…

— 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…

— 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

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter…

— Chris Bohjalian

“In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was…

— Chris Bohjalian

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when…

— Chris Bohjalian

“I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have…

— 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

“He moved quickly away from her through the ring, his whole body starting forward with the big animal in two-point and then…

— 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

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

— Chris Bohjalian

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and…

— Chris Bohjalian

“She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then…

— Chris Bohjalian

“She feared that she’d missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but…

— 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

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

— Chris Bohjalian

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

— Chris Bohjalian

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

— Chris Bohjalian

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

— 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

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

— Chris Bohjalian

“Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.”

— Chris Bohjalian

“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”

— Chris Bohjalian