Sonja

“She was shrinking into a horrible, ugly thing that no one wanted to see, or speak to, or have anything to do with at all, so she had to get plucked out like a weed, or crushed like a disgusting, mouldy crumb.”
― Susan Lewis

“Sometimes he felt like two people inside the same skin, and he wasn't always entirely sure which of them was real.”
― Susan Lewis, Missing

“I’ve read a tiger’s not dangerous,
They say the tiger won’t attack
But one thing’s not clear to me.
Has he read this, too? Does he know?”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

“He takes two tea bags in a four-ounce cup and he doesn’t mince words: when a pair of earnest British journalists once asked him how he thought the tigers could be saved, his answer, “AIDS,” caught them off guard.
“But don’t you care about people?” one of them asked.
“Not really,” he replied. “Especially not the Chinese.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival