Language Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“She turns on her laptop, raises her spectacles to her face. She reads the day’s headlines. But they might be from any day. A…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If someone asked her just then what memory was, what the purest definition of memory was, she would say this: the street you were…

— Zadie Smith

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall…

— Scott Cawthon

“The job she had to do, as she saw it, was to remember everything—and by “remember” she meant experience it in her mind, one…

— Alice Munro

“He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.”

— Chris Marker

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

“Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way…

— Jhumpa Lahiri