Quotes by : Jhumpa Lahiri

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter,....

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume....

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

She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions.....

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,....

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and....

He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past....

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

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came....