The only way to even begin to understand language is to love it so much that we allow it to confound us and to torment us to the extent that it threa… - Jhumpa Lahiri

I have only the desire. Yet ultimately a desire is nothing but a crazy need.

Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.