Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden
6 quotes
"With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight."
"But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want."
"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,either brokered by an angel or sourced by one.That is why I try to encourage people to be receptive to that new person who seems to have appeared in their life out of nowhere."
"Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune."
"Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory."
"We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven."