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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism. — Tea Obreht

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me! — Tea Obreht

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

She'll have a time with that baby and only a tiger for a husband. — Tea Obreht

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. — Tea Obreht

Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind. — Tea Obreht

I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all. — Tea Obreht

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. — Tea Obreht

These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life. — Tea Obreht

The best fiction stays with you and changes you. — Tea Obreht

We're all entitled to our superstitions. — Tea Obreht

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground. — Tea Obreht

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996. — Tea Obreht

I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his [my grandfather's] optimism. — Tea Obreht

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters. — Tea Obreht

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. — Tea Obreht

Years of fighting, andm before that, a lifetime on the cusp of it. Conflict we didn't understand ... had been at the center of everything. — Tea Obreht

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma. — Tea Obreht

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is. — Tea Obreht

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young. — Tea Obreht

Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist? — Tea Obreht

Death should be celebrated ... when you put something in the ground you always know where it is — Tea Obreht

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly. — Tea Obreht

My grandfather and I were very close. — Tea Obreht

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. — Tea Obreht

It is as if, having stepped into a room, a man can no longer see the door through which he has come, and so cannot leave. — Tea Obreht

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be — Tea Obreht

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling. — Tea Obreht

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year. — Tea Obreht

We were seventeen, furious at everything because we didn't know what else to do with the fact that the war was over. — Tea Obreht