Jan
13th
2012

For being a foreigner… is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished
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— Jhumpa Lahiri
Tagged: jhumpa lahiri, diaspora, migration, desi, author, quotes, .
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