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

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Source : Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.3, Hachette UK

Tea Obreht

#Memories Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Stones Quotes

“There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.”
“It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.”
“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.”

Source : Lufkin, Texas Concert Transcript, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.
“I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”

Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2012). “The Peach Keeper”, p.122, Hachette UK
“When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.”
“It's never too late to fall in love.”
“The Iraq War is largely about oil.”
“Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.”

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