Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
“She has never been so alone, and yet she feels so much a part of everything.”
“It is not the same to be a foreigner everywhere.”
“Pet names are a persistent reminder that life is more complicated than we think.”
“We all come out of Gogol’s world, even if we don’t know it.”
“It is the same with books. What we read is not what we see, but what we feel.”
“That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
“You are always a foreigner, even if you become a citizen.”
“Language is the only homeland.”
“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.”
“For being a foreigner, Ashoke was born in America, yet he has never felt at home here.”
“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known.”
“Being a foreigner is a sort of lifelong pregnancy—a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling of out-of-placeness.”
