Best Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
- In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do… All
- It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me,… Anywhere
- The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. Adverse
- It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. Character
- My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in… Arranged
- 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… Access
- I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be… Always Think
- For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I… Any
- 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… All
- Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and… Aftermath
- In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his… Begins
- Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at… Annoyed
- He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing… Backing
- She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her… Background
- While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that… Achievement
- 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… Accept
- On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies… Apartment
- The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the… Adult
- Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia… Across
- One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist. Fist
- That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Book
- 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 thick… Bangs
- There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so… Born
- 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… All
- Sexy means loving someone you donot know. Donot
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