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She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
I’ve seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn’t occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don’t feel like going back and dredging them up (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
And wasn’t it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn’t it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one’s life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person... that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane? (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people’s lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren’t the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)
Remember it always. Remember that you and I made this journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go (Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes)