The Lioness Quotes

“We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“Hotel Lutetia.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“normalcy bias. We suppose the world will continue to spin the way it always has. We tell ourselves that what we are seeing isn’t, in fact, the cataclysm that it is.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“(Perhaps that was the worst kind of monster: the kind who had blue eyes and small constellations of freckles, and yet was humanized by fingers made knobby by injury or illness. The fact was, Hollywood was awash with exactly”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“The flu was not a pretty way to die. But then, there really weren’t pretty ways to die, unless you were granted that rarest of miracles and died in your sleep.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. —Orson Welles”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

“We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday.

And it was only yesterday, wasn't it?

Wasn't it?”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness