103 Quotes by Chris Bohjalian

This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person’s self respect.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. – Margaret Atwood.

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.

Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we’re either very resilient or super callous. I don’t know which.

I’m not sure I can think of anything sadder than a homeless person with a homeless dog.

She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration.

You can repair anything but dead. You can’t fix that.

Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely.

My dad and Patricia viewed my decision to become a vegetarian largely in terms of the way it seemed to complicate their dinner menus.