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Jhumpa Lahiri QUOTES

Jhumpa Lahiri QUOTES

1 " Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Namesake

2 " 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. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Namesake

3 " The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too soon and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , Unaccustomed Earth

4 " That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Namesake

5 " When you’re in love, you want to live forever. You want the emotion, the excitement you feel to last. Reading in Italian arouses a similar longing in me. I don’t want to die, because my death would mean the end of my discovery of the language. Because every day there will be a new word to learn. Thus true love can represent eternity. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri

6 " He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and made his life, was not his, "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Lowland

7 " 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 "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Lowland

8 " ...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 , The Namesake

9 " But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , Unaccustomed Earth

10 " He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , Unaccustomed Earth

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

― Jhumpa Lahiri , In Other Words

12 " ...American book jackets reflect the spirit of country - little homogeneity, lots of diversity. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Clothing of Books

13 " Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Lowland

14 " Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , In Other Words

15 " She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been paired down to its solitary components. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri

16 " A woman who had fallen out of love with her life "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , Interpreter of Maladies

17 " Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , In Other Words

18 " 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 thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , Unaccustomed Earth

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

― Jhumpa Lahiri , Unaccustomed Earth

20 " In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. "

― Jhumpa Lahiri , The Lowland