My 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.
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 obviou… - Chris Bohjalian
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 obviou…
- Chris Bohjalian
The 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 invitati… - Chris Bohjalian
The 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 invitati…
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. - Chris Bohjalian
With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. - Chris Bohjalian
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive. - Chris Bohjalian
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed. - Chris Bohjalian
Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. - Chris Bohjalian
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want. - Chris Bohjalian
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day. - Chris Bohjalian
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
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