Chris Bohjalian citations

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“Some are just businessmen.”