Children are resilient,” Anise said, simultaneously agreeing with her friend and cutting her off. “But often their wounds simply remain invisible until, all at once, whatever is festering there becomes agonizingly apparent.
Chris BohjalianMy 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.
Chris BohjalianThe honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...
Chris BohjalianWe 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 BohjalianStichwörter: life-experience reality-of-life
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
Chris BohjalianStichwörter: age experience life-lessons maturity
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
Chris BohjalianBoys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.
Chris BohjalianBut history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are obviously morbid. Really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? You get the point. Besides, my grandparents’ story deserves to be told, regardless of their nationalities.
Chris BohjalianThose who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75
Chris BohjalianWhen it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.
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