Joy of reading Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri

“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She…

— Jhumpa Lahiri