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
memories want sometimes
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
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.
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....
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.
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.
lying moving your-side
Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.
grandparent stories survivor
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
dream past trying
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
lying writing interesting
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.
memories should treated
Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.
age acumen insight
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
distance small-moments looks
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
war reality america
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.