Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands Quotes

“I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“The message, if you think about it this way, is all about taking chances because fate or destiny or God will protect you. Take a risk, have a little faith. It’s all about life, not death.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“I’m not sure I can think of anything sadder than a homeless person with a homeless dog.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you’re not. And so, if you’re like me, those times when you’re not, you try and save face—especially after you’ve seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“I kind of understood at a young age that I didn’t play well with most other kids in the sandbox.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“Welcomes seclusion. Not precisely antisocial, but reclusive.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“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.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“As a species, we’re either very resilient or super callous. I don’t know which.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“but my biggest worry was that he would”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“That might just mean that I had nothing better to do”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“plant. Some girls started crying and asking me what was going on, like I’d actually have a clue, and whether the worst reports we were reading or watching on our phones were the accurate ones. But how could I know? I called my mom to see what was going on, but she never picked up. I sent her a text and never heard back. Same with my dad, but I never really expected to hear from him. I figured he was up to his ass in whatever nightmare was going on. Still, not hearing from my mom was what started to freak me out inside. I tried to keep it together, because I didn’t want to get as dramatic as those other girls, but it was hard. Supposedly, there was a flood at the plant and the power was off. Some people thought that meant there was nothing at all to worry about, while others were already talking meltdown. One boy whose dad worked at the plant was debating with one of our science teachers the difference between a meltdown and a melt-through, like this was just a regular, everyday physics class.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“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.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“Did you know that a lot of Emily Dickinson’s poems can be sung to the theme from Gilligan’s Island? Not kidding, this is totally legit.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly,”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

“I love it when the snowflakes are flying like butterflies.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands