Quotes by : Jhumpa Lahiri

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English....

He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs....

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting....

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and....

When you’re in love, you want to live forever. You want the emotion, the excitement you feel to last.....

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

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

Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed....

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater,....

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment....