Quotes from book
The Lowland

The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri

The Lowland is the second novel by American author Jhumpa Lahiri, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Random House in 2013.

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“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”

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“War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war”

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“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”

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“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.”

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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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“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”

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

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