Quotes by : Jhumpa Lahiri

While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world....

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

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central....

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders,....

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply....

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

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became....

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single....

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