Quote by Chris Bohjalian Download Open image ““That might just mean that I had nothing better to do”” — Chris Bohjalian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Just because you could do something didn’t mean that you should do it.” — K.A. Linde Copy Share Image
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“I had stuff that needed doing. It wasn’t my fault that none of it mattered.” — Aric Davis Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don’t have… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.” — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“there was nothing I could have done to stop what happened. And that maybe it wasn’t all my fault.” — Penelope Ward 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
