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Chris Bohjalian _ The Light in the Ruins
Seriously," the banker went on, "what do you investigate? I have a feeling you do more than find stray kittens and bring home lost babies.""Murder.
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Chris Bohjalian _ Wingspan
This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect
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Chris Bohjalian _ Wingspan
Pain came in all colors and sizes, much of it far worse than the pricks and aches and fever dreams that affected the body
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Chris Bohjalian _ Wingspan
She did it because it was, like so much else that made her happy, dangerous and self-destructive and just a little bit sick.
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Chris Bohjalian _ Wingspan
Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
Did you ever read Carlo Levi?" "No." "You should-if you like Tolstoy. He wrote beautifully about Italian peasants. My people, once. He had a soul like Tolstoy. 'The future has an ancient heart.' I think I have that right."
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Sandcastle Girls
Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel," he says.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Law of Similars
Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Guest Room
If you were Bill Clinton, how did you justify Monica Lewinsky to Chelsea? What did you say about the cigar and the beret and the little blue dress? If you were Anthony Weiner, how in the world did you explain to your daughter your apparently insatiable need to text pictures of your junk to strange women?
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
Elena believed that reportage like that might be compelling and beautiful, but it would never gain traction in the Age of the Troll. In the Age of Mass Shootings. In the Age of the Suicide Bomb in the Crowd.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Double Bind
A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.
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