Jhumpa Lahiri Short Quotes

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She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

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Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

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That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

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

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She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

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That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

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He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

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She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

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She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.

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She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

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Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

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