The Nature of Jade is one novel that I felt at home with. Jade and I are nothing alike - the narrator of the novel is more thoughtful, and she has a deep love for elephants that I admire but do not share. But to me, she seems a lot more real than other, more 'heroic' characters.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
