‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"When I was your age I was without knowing that one day I would be so far. You are wiser than that, Eliot. You already taste the way things must be." (123)