Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

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 stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.