Jhumpa Lahiri said this quote

“ He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born. ”

Famous Quotes of Jhumpa Lahiri

Famous quotes of Jhumpa Lahiri from the classy quote

See all

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

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri Advice Inspirational Life Mottos

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

Jhumpa Lahiri Inspirational

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri Death Mother

The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too soon and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri Death Sisterhood Sisters