"With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight."
- Chris Bohjalian
"But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want."
"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."
"During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins."
"She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself."
"A day doesn't go by when I don't look at them, she said. I can't have them up on the kitchen refrigerator or in a frame in the bedroom--I just can't do it, I just can't run into them casually when I'm..."
"...this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the bl..."
"And just as there is random horror-murder,suicide,child abuse,car accidents.......there is also indiscriminate kindness.Not merely miracles,though I have experienced them.But simple human connection,e..."
"Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory."
"Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband's. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick. ..."