Quotes from 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 survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75

No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure was going to give him the joys or the terrors that must accompany pregnancy- that must, for teen girls, make sex a walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

Yes, this may be the hour of the witch. But the Devil? He most definitely wears breeches. The Devil can only be a man.

How the Germans can remain allies with the Turks is beyond me. No European nation would ever commit the sorts of crimes that this regime is blithely committing right now.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.