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 LahiriShe supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
Jhumpa LahiriWe are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.
Jhumpa LahiriIve inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
Jhumpa Lahiri