Karen

“In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element of wishful thinking whenever she had come across corpses that young.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Light in the Ruins

“And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers

“And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Law of Similars

“Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden