Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

"Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed" (63).

"They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end" (287).