She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things. - Jhumpa Lahiri

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K and marches steadily across the roof of his mouth, ending with elusive vowels that hover outside his lips

He regretted only one thing: that he had not met her sooner, that he had not known her every day of his life.