Chris Bohjalian Quotes

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

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.

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. All households had their mysteries, their particular forms of dysfunction.

But for most of the world- for most of Vermont- the Cape Abenaki meltdown is just another bit of old news. Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callous. I don't know which.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

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.