"The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world."

“Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.”

“The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I dont feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.”

“I've spent more than a decade channeling information for and about men. I'm able to come and use this information, with the help of the research, to hand over the keys to the kingdom to women.”

“Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

“The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.”

“I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.”

“Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.”

“You remind me of everything that followed.”

Source : Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt