Cara Forbes

“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”
― Cristina Henriquez, The Book of Unknown Americans

“Is it really pain you feel, Mrs. Das, or is it guilt?”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

“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.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde