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The Tiger's Wife

by Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 31, 2012 02:39PM

“We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

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“Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

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“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

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“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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