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Back Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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