Jhumpa Lahiri Quote

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Despite this inundation of rape imagery, where we are immersed in a rape culture—one that is overly permissive toward all manner of sexual violence—not enough victims of gang rape speak out about the...

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

Άρχισαν τα πηγαδάκια. Η Γκλόρια σέρβιρε το επιδόρπιο. Ο Ντιντιέ ακούμπησε το τσιγάρο του στην άκρη του πιάτου με τα αμυγδαλωτά, σκορπίζοντας στάχτες και τρίμματα από αμυγδαλωτά και επιμένοντας ότι ο Φ...

When you live without your own language you feel weightless and, at the same time, overloaded. You breathe another type of air, at a different altitude. You are always aware of the difference.

Richard had met Jessica in France, on a weekend trip to Paris two years earlier; had in fact discovered her in the Louvre, trying to find the group of his office friends who had organized the trip. St...

Kitai blinked slowly. Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.We have a lot of words like that, Tavi said. They can mean more than one thing.That is stupid, Kitai said. It...