Laurie

“But 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 Bohjalian, The Sandcastle Girls

“There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“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

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen