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.
タグ: mother, death

"Jhumpa Lahiri"の他の名言

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.
タグ: reading, poetry, me, love
If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.
タグ: way, look, you, relationship
I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.
タグ: go, think, daughter, freedom
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
タグ: sort, campus, university, island
I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
タグ: place, real, book, feel
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