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Be wary of what I might learn. No. Do you think I should? I don’t know. Maybe, she replied, and in my mind I saw her in her high-backed bar stool at the island in the kitchen where the kids scarfed do...

Chris Bohjalian

Be wary of what I might learn. No. Do you think I should? I don’t know. Maybe, she replied, and in my mind I saw her in her high-backed bar stool at the island in the kitchen where the kids scarfed do...

I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.

Chris Bohjalian

I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.

About Author
Chris A. Bohjalian (Armenian: Քրիս Պոհճալեան) is an Armenian-American novelist and the author of over twenty novels, including Midwives (1997), The Sandcastle Girls (2012), The Guest Room (2016), and The Flight Attendant (2018). Bohjalian's work has been published in over thirty languages, and three of his novels have been adapted into films. Bohjalian's The Flight Attendant has been adapted for a television drama starring Kaley Cuoco.

She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn’t. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in b...

Chris Bohjalian

She closed her eyes and tried desperately to swim through the mist that enveloped her memories. She was near here and then she wasn’t. She was whole and then she was wounded. Forever scarred. And in b...

Words are just words. Some are better than others, but only because they are better at explaining what you mean.

Chris Bohjalian

Words are just words. Some are better than others, but only because they are better at explaining what you mean.

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Chris Bohjalian

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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...

Chris Bohjalian

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...

But if you are a person who needs no one’s approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.

Chris Bohjalian

But if you are a person who needs no one’s approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.

Gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism

Chris Bohjalian

Gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Chris Bohjalian

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Tags: experience, life lessons, maturity

The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you’re not. And so, if you’re like me, those times when you’re not, you try and save face—especially after you’ve seriously fucked up. You...

Chris Bohjalian

The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you’re not. And so, if you’re like me, those times when you’re not, you try and save face—especially after you’ve seriously fucked up. You...

Some are just businessmen.

Chris Bohjalian

Some are just businessmen.

As a species, we’re either very resilient or super callous. I don’t know which.

Chris Bohjalian

As a species, we’re either very resilient or super callous. I don’t know which.

She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

Chris Bohjalian

She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

Tags: world war 2

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn’t play well with most other kids in the sandbox.

Chris Bohjalian

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn’t play well with most other kids in the sandbox.

The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it the way Henry Holiday did in his exquisite nineteenth-c...

Chris Bohjalian

The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it the way Henry Holiday did in his exquisite nineteenth-c...

When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk...

Chris Bohjalian

When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk...

Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel, he says.

Chris Bohjalian

Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel, he says.

My presence scared them. I reminded them of the one thing in the world we want most to forget.

Chris Bohjalian

My presence scared them. I reminded them of the one thing in the world we want most to forget.

Those 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 sur...

Chris Bohjalian

Those 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 sur...

A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,

Chris Bohjalian

A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,