Carmela

“When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls

“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 obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls

“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, The Sandcastle Girls

“We 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 Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden