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Chris Bohjalian , is an American novelist and the author of 20 novels, including such bestsellers as Midwives, The Sandcastle Girls and The Guest Room. His work has been published in over 30 languages and three times has been adapted into films. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. August 1962
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The Sandcastle Girls
The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian
The Sandcastle Girls
The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian
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Famous Chris Bohjalian Quotes

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

Chris Bohjalian

Source: Secrets of Eden

“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.”

Chris Bohjalian

Source: Secrets of Eden

“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?”

Chris Bohjalian book The Sandcastle Girls

Source: The Sandcastle Girls

“I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better….”

Chris Bohjalian

Source: Secrets of Eden

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

Chris Bohjalian book The Sandcastle Girls

Source: The Sandcastle Girls

“But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”

Chris Bohjalian

Source: Secrets of Eden

“Some are just businessmen.”

Chris Bohjalian

The Guest Room

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