The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.