Jhumpa Lahiri

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#travel

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. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#inspirational

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#inspirational #life #mottos #inspirational

Sexy means loving someone you donot know. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#love

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. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#love

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#life

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#american #jhumpa-lahiri #life #money #the-namesake

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#comparison #get #i #inevitable #interested

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#device #i #i think #kind #projecting

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i