Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri Download Open image ““The sunlight on her hair.”” — Jhumpa Lahiri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It was only sunlight she needed. Pure, delicious sunlight flooding through a room.)” — Kathleen Collins Copy Share Image
“...but now she’s somber. The sunlight in her fine honey-brown hair does nothing to relinquish her from the grayness that overshadows her.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He loved her hair. It was like sunshine. Not the sunshine he saw here in England, but the all-consuming sun found on the open… — Kristi Ann Hunter Copy Share Image
“Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.” — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
“His fingers settled on her hair. The purest, softest shade of black. The shade one saw when one closed one's eyes, in a warm,… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said.” — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“She could feel her skin turning darker while he lay there and stared at her; her hair felt not only short but unbelievably bushy.” — Kathleen Collins Copy Share Image
“I want the light filtered down through the trees painting flesh like a mosaic and filling up the dark in me. I want to… — Tyler Knott Gregson 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
