"Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night."

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Source : Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.237, A&C Black

Jhumpa Lahiri

#Night Quotes #Silence Quotes #Promise Quotes

“I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.”
“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.”
“The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.”
“The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.”
“I swear, Iâ€™ve never met any demon as annoying as you are.â€ â€œYou havenâ€™t met my youngest brother.”
“The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.”
“Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.”
“While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.”

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