Home / Quotes / Quote by Chris Bohjalian

Quote by Chris Bohjalian

“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.”

Quote by Chris Bohjalian

Book:Before You Know Kindness

Work

Before You Know Kindness

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian is a renowned American novelist born on August 12, 1960. His works are known for their emotional depth and compelling narratives, covering a range of themes including family, love, history, and social issues. more

You May Also Like

“You know that old saying about home being where the heart is? I don’t think that refers to your own. It’s the hearts of other people, the ones you love, that makes a home.”

Book:Something Like Autumn

Source: Something Like Autumn

“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.”

Home Action Belief Church Silence Expression Exile Cunning Serve

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“There it is." And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again. "The Happiness Machine," he said. "The Happiness Machine.”

Children Home Happiness Family

Book:Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.”

Book:Beautiful Malice

Source: Beautiful Malice

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome. Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him. It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he had gladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical faculty housing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a young boy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.”

Source: Angels & Demons

“It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold.”

Home Sad But True Forlorn

Book:The Stars Were Right

Source: The Stars Were Right

“Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone, it's where you go when're you're alone, its were you go to rest your bones. It's not just where you lay your head, it's not just where you make your bead. As long as we're together does it matter where we go?”

Inspirational Home Relationships Friendship Family Dreams

Author:Gabrielle Aplin

“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. It was very far inland that I caught the first smell of the Pacific. When one has been long at sea, the smell of land reaches far out to greet one. And the same it true when one has been long inland.”

Home Nature Sea Ocean Marine Pacific Ocean

Author:John Steinbeck

“Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.”

God Home Christian Time Women Mom Planning Pray Master Patterson

Author:Elizabeth George

“I ran, and I just kept running. I wasn’t going to stop until I got back to my family; I wasn’t going to stop until I got home.”

Home Family Run

Book:Tess Embers

Source: Tess Embers