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“She has the gift of accepting her life.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

“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 book Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Interpreter of Maladies

“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.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

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

Jhumpa Lahiri book Unaccustomed Earth

Source: Unaccustomed Earth

“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.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

“A woman who had fallen out of love with her life”

Jhumpa Lahiri book Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Interpreter of Maladies