Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist and the author of 18 novels, including the bestsellers Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
differences people making-a-difference
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
memories want sometimes
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
writing games may
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 and six and seven.
calling answers levels
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 single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...
mother hurt healing
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 thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.
negative defined
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
magic certainty i-can
I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....
alive said
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
prayer recovery angel
The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.
frightening seems
When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
soldier firsts said
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
doe lines matter
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 obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?
baby home wife
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
country eye animal
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 they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.