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61 " I’m not sure I can think of anything sadder than a homeless person with a homeless dog. "
― Chris Bohjalian , Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
62 " ...The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived. "
― Chris Bohjalian , The Flight Attendant
63 " She knew that most men desired her because she was attractive and she was smart, but also because she was a drunk and she was easy. This one? She hoped for his sake he wasn't as different as he seemed, because she always disappointed those men quickly or broke their hearts over time. "
64 " The message, if you think about it this way, is all about taking chances because fate or destiny or God will protect you. Take a risk, have a little faith. It’s all about life, not death. "
65 " ...we were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move. "
― Chris Bohjalian , Midwives
66 " we have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control. "
― Chris Bohjalian , The Sandcastle Girls
67 " If they veered left, it would feel to them as if they were sinking into the earth: the path would narrow as the ground around them rose up to their hips, then shoulders, then heads. The walls would turn from sod to stone, and it would seem as if they were walking inside a crag in a cliff. The sky would be reduced to a thin swath of blue, broken in parts by the branches of the trees that grew above them along the sides of this ancient channel. "
― Chris Bohjalian , The Light in the Ruins
68 " As a species, we’re either very resilient or super callous. I don’t know which. "
69 " , sometimes you just have to bury the dead and move on. "
70 " Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm. "
― Chris Bohjalian , Secrets of Eden
71 " We always have choices. Isn’t that what Dante teaches us? "
72 " That might just mean that I had nothing better to do "
73 " She cringed when she saw she needed a bikini wax - and cringed that she even got them in the first place. It wasn't the pain. It was the whole idea she was raising her daughter in a world where pubic hair was a problem. "
― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room
74 " Every man’s memory is his private literature. "
75 " A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee, "
76 " But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. "
77 " quid pro quo, "
― Chris Bohjalian , The Sleepwalker
78 " Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on. "
79 " up now "
80 " Remember that person you wanted to be? There’s still time. "