“Everything about [chance] scares the bejesus out of so many people; it's the this thing they try to avoid at all costs. Don't travel to the Middle East these days - there's a chance something could happen. Don't get involved with that new fellow on Creamery Street - I hear a lot of mud was scraped off his floor after the divorce. Don't have your baby at home - there's a a chance something could go wrong. Don't don't don't... Well, you can't live your life like that! You can't spend your entire life avoiding chance. It's out there, it's inescapable, it's a part of the soul of the world. There are no sure things in this universe, and it's absolutely ridiculous to try and live like there are!”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
“No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
“Then there were those girls who became midwives: girls who could not get enough of the tiniest of babies - girls who would grow into women who absolutely reveled in the magnificent process of birth...The difference between a woman who becomes an OB and the women who becomes and midwife has less to do with education, philosophy or upbringing than with the depth of her appreciation for the miracle of labor and for life in its moment of emergence.”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
“...we were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
“When the sun is strong and the air is warm, however, we shout greetings to one another down the lengths of long driveways and from the windows of our cars as we pass; we hold our heads high as we walk, staring up into the sky with our eyes shut and our faces widened by smiles. We breathe in deeply the summery air, but this sort of inhalation doesn’t result in a sigh; it’s a precursor to a purr, or the moans one might make during a backrub. We no longer mope, we no longer grouse. We are filled with energy. Although”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
Chris Bohjalian
Born place: in White Plains, New York, The United States
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“I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.”
― Suzanne Enoch, quote from England's Perfect Hero
“The only work really worth doing — the only work you can do convincingly — is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.”
― quote from Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“It's amazing how something can be blue and yet absolutely colorless.”
― Julie Halpern, quote from Get Well Soon
“good lawyers know the law and that great lawyers know the judge?”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Krishna Key
“Драги Тео,
Влюбен съм. Миналата седмица за профилактичен преглед дойде Клер Мемлинг. Бях и изпратил пощенска картичка, в която и писах, че са изминали шест месеца от последното почистване на зъбите и, макар да бяха изминали само четири дни! Тео, тази жена ме подлудява! Обезумях от желание! Ах, каква захапка! През живота си не съм виждал подобна захапка! Зъбите и съвпадат идеално! Не като на госпожа Иткин, чиито долни зъби стърчат с около три сантиметра пред горните и и придават вид на върколак! Не, не! Зъбите на Клер са чудесни! В такива случаи се убеждавам, че има Бог! И все пак тя не е съвършенна. Не до толкова, че да бъде безинтересна. Между долния девети и единайсти зъб има празно място. Десетият зъб изгубила в следпубертетната си възраст. Внезапно и без предупреждение зъбът развил кариес. Извадили го много лесно (всъщност той паднал, както си разговаряла) и на негово място така и не поставили нов. "Нищо не може да замени долния десети зъб , ми каза тя. Той бе за мен много повече от зъб, той бе моят живот". Избягвали да споменават зъба и аз смятам, че тя разговаря с мен по този въпрос само защото ми има доверие. О, Тео, обичам я! Днес, като надничах в устата и, се почувствах отново млад и плах студент по стоматология и започнах да изпускам вътре тампони и огледалца. После я прегърнах и и показах как е правилно да си мие зъбите с четка. Сладкото малко глупаче бе навикнало да държи четката неподвижно и да движи глава няляво и надясно. Следващият вторник ще я упоя и ще я помоля да ми стане жена.
Винсент
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Драги Тео,
Отново се скарахме с Гоген и той замина за Таити. Обезпокоих го точно докато вадеше зъб… В момента се водеше обичайната схватка между зъболекар и пациент и аз имах неблагоразумието да вляза точно тогава и да попитам Гоген дали е виждал филцовата ми шапка. Гоген побесня! Той ме сграбчи, натика главата ми под рентгеновия апарат и ме държа така цели десет минути. В продължение на няколко часа след това не можех да мигам едновременно с двата си клепача. Сега съм самотен.
Винсент”
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