Author: Chris Bohjalian

Cites

• Nick Hornby (1)
  • IN: The Double Bind (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Oh, I know who Pauline Kael is," he said. "I wasn't born homeless, you know."
    FROM: A Long Way Down, (2005), Novel, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Light in the Ruins (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I dream of the hills around Siena, and of my love whom I shall never see again. I shall become one gaping wound-like the winds, nothing.
    FROM: From a note hidden in the seam of the shirt of an anonymous civilian executed by the Gestapo in Rome, (1944), NULL, Italy
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Night Strangers (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our bodies are our gardensm to which are will are gardeners
    FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
• Marsha Norman (1)
  • IN: The Night Strangers (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dead... might not be quiet at all
    FROM: night Mother, (1981), Play, US
• Emily Dickinson (2)
  • IN: Close your Eyes, Hold hands (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.
    FROM: NULL, (1945), Poem, US
• Boris Pasternak (1)
  • IN: The Guest Room (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't think I'd love you so deeply if you had nothing to complain of, and nothing to regret.
    FROM: Doctor Zhivago, (1957), Novel, Italy
• Sylvia Plath (1)
  • IN: The Sleepwalker (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
    FROM: Elm, (1981), Poem, US
• Naomi Shihab Nye (1)
  • IN: Before You Know Kindness (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
    FROM: “Kindness", (1980), Poem, US
• James Martineau (1)
  • IN: Midwives (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Midwives (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he caused grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
    FROM: Bible, Lamentations 3:31-33, (-165), Bible, NULL