Quotes by : Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean.....

Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through....

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

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....

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal,....