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My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.
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In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
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No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
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The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.
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September 30, 1985
(age 39)
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Téa Obreht is a Serbian-American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.
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