Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tigerโs wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life โ of my grandfatherโs days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.
Tea ObrehtWhen I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
Tea ObrehtIn the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
Tea ObrehtIn the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.
Tea Obreht