“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity of from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.”
― Advice to Little Girls
― Advice to Little Girls
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