# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

> Tiger roared in anger, and Charlie took the roar and wound his song around it. Then he did the roar himself, just like Tiger had done it. Well, the roar began just as Tiger’s roar had, but then Charlie changed it, so it became a really goofy sort of roar, and all the creatures watching from the rocks started to laugh. They couldn’t help it. Charlie did the goofy roar again. Like any impersonation, like any perfect caricature, it had the effect of making what it made fun of intrinsically ridiculous. No one would ever hear Tiger roar again without hearing Charlie’s roar underneath it. “Goofy sort of a roar,” they’d say.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Anansi Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/anansi-boys.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anansi_Boys#Chapter_14_-_Which_Comes_to_Several_Conclusions) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/anansi-boys/tiger-roared-in-anger

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> Nothing good lasts forever, after all. Sooner or later, as Grahame Coats himself would have delighted in assuring you, even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

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> “You, Charles. The police suspect you.”
>
> “Yes,” said Fat Charlie. “Of course they do. It’s been that sort of a day.”

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> Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily against the pin. Now the meter broke. From this moment on, he suspected, nothing would surprise him. He could no longer be outweirded. He was done.
>
> He was wrong, of course.

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