Piyal

“I just wanted to go home, to the language in which I was known, and loved.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“We are on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies. They’re practically what defines us. When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”
― HBO, Chernobyl

“When the language one identifies with is far away, one does everything possible to keep it alive. Because words bring back everything: the place, the people, the life, the streets, the life, the sky, the flowers, the sounds. When you live without your own language you feel weightless and, at the same time, overloaded. Your breathe another type of air, at a different altitude. You are always aware of the difference.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“When two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.”
― Marcel Proust