The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”
“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”
“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.”
“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”
“War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war,”
“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”
“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”
“The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.”
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Book Keywords:
companionship, motherhood, fatherhood, isolation, distancing-self, parenting, unknown, lovemaking, alienation, heart, mystery, body
