"Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night."
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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
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