She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Lying in his parents' house, in the middle of the night, she told him the whole story, about meeting Dimitri on a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Eventually he begins to practice his new signature in the margins of the paper. He tries it in various styles, his hand… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
