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.
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. - Jhumpa Lahiri
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall… - Jhumpa Lahiri
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall…
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and … - Jhumpa Lahiri
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and …
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see … - Jhumpa Lahiri
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see …
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch. - Jhumpa Lahiri
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing - Jhumpa Lahiri
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
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