Quotes by : Téa Obreht

It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot....

Knowing, above all, that I would come looking, and find what he had left for me, all that remained of....

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Eventually, my grandfather said: - You must understand, this is one of those moments.- What moments?-....

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

My grandfather would pet the dog, and, in a voice that made him sound like some kind of children's program....

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to....

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s....

...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the....