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"He had held his son, who had known life only within her, against his chest in a darkened room in an unknown wing of the hospital. He had held him until a nurse knocked and took him away, and he promised himself that day that he would never tell Shoba, because he still loved her then, and it was the one thing in her life that she had wanted to be a surprise." (Lahiri 22)

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"Is it really pain you feel, Mrs. Das, or is it guilt?"(Lahiri 66).

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"They wept together, for the things they now knew."(Lahiri 22)

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"Both smiled with their mouths closed, squinting into the wind, Mrs. Sen's red sari leaping like flames under her coat" (Lahiri 130)

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While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

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"They wept together for the things that they now knew." (Lahiri 22)

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Mr. Kapasi observed it too, knowing that this was the picture of the Das family he
would preserve forever in his mind. (pg. 69)

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"Everything is there" (Lahiri 113)

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"No one but Mr. Kapasi noticed"(Lahiri 69).

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"Have I mentioned that I crossed the border with just two bracelets on my wrist? Yet there was a day when my feet touched nothing but marble. Believe me, don't believe me such comforts you cannot even dream them (Lahiri 71).

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" Perhaps he would tell her what a pleasing smile she had. Perhaps he would compliment her strawberry shirt, which he found irresistibly becoming"(Lahiri60).

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"Sexy... It means loving someone you dont know." (Lahiri 107)

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"For years afterward, we wondered who in our town had disgraced her. A few of our servants were questioned...

But there was no point carrying out an investigation. She was, to the best of our knowledge, cured" (Lahiri 172).

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" The slip of paper with Mr. Kapasi's address on it fluttered away in the wind. No one but Mr. Kapasi noticed. He watched as it rose, carried higher and higher by the breeze, into the trees where the monkeys now sat, solemnly observing the scene below." (Lahiri 69)

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"When she whipped out the hairbrush, the slip of paper with Mr. Kapasi's address on it fluttered away in the wind. No one but Mr. Kapasi noticed," (Lahiri 69).

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"Sexy... It means loving someone you dont know." (Lahiri 107)

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"...there are times I am bewildered by each mile i have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each rrom in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (Lahiri 198)

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"Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence and a single fear" (Lahiri 41).

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"Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow" (Lahiri 14).

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"His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Say something.' She watched his lips forming the words;

at the same time she heard them so clearly that she felt them under her skin, under her

winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot" (Lahiri 91).

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"She knew they would never go to restaurants, where he would reach across a table and kiss her hand. They would meet in her apartment, on Sundays, he in his sweatpants, she in her jeans" (Lahiri 105).

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"I prayed that Mr. Pirzada's family was safe and sound."(Lahiri 32

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"I prayed that Mr. Pirzada's family was safe and sound. I had never prayed for anything before." (Lahiri 32)

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"She came back to the table and sat down, and after a moment Shukumar joined her. They wept together, for the things they now knew" (Lahiri 22)

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"Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow" (Lahiri 14).

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"Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination,"(Lahiri 198).

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"She would never put it in her study, he knew. For the rest of their days together she would keep it on the center of the mantle, flanked on either side by the rest of the menagerie. Each time they had guests Twinkle would explain how she had found it, and they would admire her as they listened.." (Lahiri 157)

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"In those moments Mr. Kapasi used to believe that all was right with the world, that all struggles were rewarded, that all of life's mistakes made sense in the end" (56).

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" 'Are the Dalals the only ones who can improve

the conditions of this building?' asked another" (Lahiri 79).

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"It means loving someone you don't know

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"They didn't hold hands or put their arms around each other's waist's. Both smiled with their mouths closed, squinting into the wind, Mrs. Sen's red sari leaping like flames under her coat" (Lahiri 130).

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"When they reached the last continents of Africa Rohin said he wanted to watch cartoons,"

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"Most of all, the residents that liked Boori Ma, who slept each night behind the collapsible gate, stood guard between them and the outside world." (Lahiri 73)

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"Most of all, the residents that liked Boori Ma, who slept each night behind the collapsible gate, stood guard between them and the outside world." (Lahiri 73)

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"Elliot looked out the kitchen window, at gray waves receding from the shore, and said the he was fine" (Lahiri 135).

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"He cupped his hands back on the bed, his back straight as a board. He cupped his hands around his mouth, and then whispered, "it means loving someone you don't know."

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"She would never put it in her study, he knew. For the rest of their days together she would keep it on the center of the mantle, flanked on either side by the rest of the menagerie. Each time they had guests Twinkle would explain how she had found it, and they would admire her as they listened. He gazed at the crushed rose petals in her hair, at the pearl and sapphire choker at her throat, at the sparkly crimson polish on her toes. He decided these were among the things that made Prabal think she was wow." (Lahiri 157)

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It made no sense to me. Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same. They ate pickled mangoes with their meals, at rice every night for supper with their hands. (Lahiri 25).

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"From across the bridge, thirty feet away, his words had reached her ears, so near and full of warmth that they'd drifted for days under her skin." (Lahiri 109)

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"Shoba had turned the lights off. She came back to the table and sat down, and after a moment Shukumar joined her. They wept together, for the things they now knew" (Lahiri 22).

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"It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant

to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had

missed his wife and daughters for so many months." (Lahiri 42)

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"Everyone, this people, too much in their world" (Lahiri 121).

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"It (sexy) means loving someone you don't know." (Lahiri 107)

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"The job was a sigh of failings... He had dreamed of being an interpreter for diplomats and dignitaries, resolving conflicts between people and nations, settling disputes of which he alone could understand both sides". (Interpreter of Maladies Pg. 52)

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"She came back to the table and sat down, and after a moment Shukumar joined her. They wept together, for the things they knew now" (Lahiri 22).

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"Mr. and Mrs. Das behaved like an older brither and sister, not parents. It seemed that they were in charge of the children only for the day; it was hard to belive they were regularly responsible for anything other then themselves." (Lahiri 49).

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"It [Sexy] means loving someone you don't know." (Lahiri 107)

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"Their baby had never cried, Shukumar considered. Their baby would never have a rice ceremony, even though Shoba had already made the guest list, and decided on which one of her three brothers she was going to ask to feed the child its first taste of solid food, at six months if it was a boy, seven if it was a girl" (Lahiri 11).

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"Knowing not to sit on the furniture, she crouched, instead, in doorways and hallways, and observed gestures and manners in the same way a person tends to watch traffic in a foreign city" (Lahiri 76).

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"Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow."( Lahiri 14)

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"Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow" (Lahiri 14)

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"Miranda cried harder, unable to stop. But Rohan still slept. She guessed that he was used to it now, to the sound of a woman crying" (Lahiri 109).

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"He had held his son, who had known life only within her, against his chest in a darkened room in an unknown wing of the hospital. He had held him until a nurse knocked and took him away, and he promised himself that day that he would never tell Shoba, because he still loved her then, and it was the one thing in her life that she had wanted to be a surprise" (Lahiri 22).

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"He felt it was his duty to help Mrs. Das...He decided to begin with the most obvious question, to get to the heart of the matter, and so he asked, 'Is it really the pain you feel, Mrs. Das, or is it the guilt?'," (Lahiri 66)

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"It [sexy] means loving someone you don't know" (Lahiri 107).

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"One day I had the urge to throw everything I own out the window, the television, the children, everything. Don't you think its unhealthy?(Lahiri 65)"

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"It made no sense to me. Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same. They ate pickled mangoes with their meals, at rice every night for supper with their hands."(lilia 25)

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"Since January, each night before bed, I had continued to eat, for the sake of Mr. Pirzada's family, a piece of candy I had saved from Halloween. That night there was no need to. Eventually, I threw them away." (Lahiri 42)

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"Ive kept it a secret for eight whole years. She looked at Mr. Kapasi tilting her chin as if to gain a fresh perspective. But now I've told you." (Lahiri 62)

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"Though I had not seen him for months, it was only then that I felt Mr. Pirzada's absence. It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months." (Lahiri 42)

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"While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained

in this new world for nearly thirty years… As ordinary as it all appears, there are times

when it is beyond my imagination."

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"She turned to him and glared, mustard oil thick on her frosty pink lips. she opened her mouth to say something but as she glared at Mr. Kapasi some certain knowledge seemed to pass before her eyes, and she stopped(Lahiri 66)."

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"I put the chocolate in my mouth...and prayed that Mr. Pirzada's family was safe and sound. I had never prayed for anything before , had never been taught or told how to, but I decided, given the circumstances, that it was something I should do. That night I went to the bathroom and only pretended to brush my teeth, for I feared that I would somehow rinse the prayer out as well." (Lahiri 32).

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"Everything is there" (Lahiri 113).

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Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that ... there is no obstacle he cannot conquer" (Lahiri 197-198).

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"It [sexy] means loving someone you don't know" (Lahiri 107)

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"Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow." (Lahiri 14)

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"It means loving someone you don't know." (Lahiri 107)

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"It[Sexy] means loving someone you don't know" (Lahiri 107)

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"From then on his mother gave him a key, which he wore on a string around his neck. He was to call the neighbors in case of an emergency, and to let himself into the beach house after school." (Lahiri 135)

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"It was only then... that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away." (Lahiri 42).

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Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination” (Lahiri 198).

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"Elliot looked out the kitchen window, at gray waves receding from the shore, and said the he was fine" (Lahiri 135).

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" 'Besides, who would marry her? The girl knows nothing, about anything, speaks backward, is practically thirty, can't light a coal stove, can't boil rice, can't tell the difference between fennel and a cumin seed. Imagine her attempting to feed a man!' They had a point. Bibi had never been taught to be a woman" (Lahiri 163).

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He had never seen her cry before, had never seen such sadness in her eyes. She didn't turn away or try to stop the tears; instead she looked strangely at peace." (Lahiri 149).

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"He [Mr. Kapasi] decided . . . to get to the heart of the matter, and so he asked, 'Is it really pain that you feel, Mrs. Das, or is it guilt?'" (Lahiri 66).

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"I know that my achievement is quite ordinary... Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (Lahiri 198)

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"Do you miss your mother, Eliot, there afternoons with me?

The thought had never occurred to him." (Lahiri 122)

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"Clearly the scheme has succeeded in your case". (Lahiri 138)

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"They wept together, for the things they now knew." (Lahiri 22)

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"Our baby was a boy" (Lahiri 22)