Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.
Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.
In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.
I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.
I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.
No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.
She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.
I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.
I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.
...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity.
I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.
But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost
My grandfather says that's what books are for, " Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.