Blue dress Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— 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.…

— 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…

— Chris Bohjalian

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

— 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.

— 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…

— Chris Bohjalian