Quotes from Lara Vapnyar

The secret was that I could conduct the different parts of my life in the different parts of the house and ignore the fact that they didn't work as a whole.

Unless the word "just" had an added meaning of "with the help of magical powers," urging me to "just do" something sounded like telling a person consumed by anxiety to "just calm down" or a clinically depressed person to "just lighten up!

You talk about love the same way my patients talk about cancer.

Another idiotic tradition, Regina thought. To eat and drink in memory of the departed. There was something gross about it. As if they were taunting the dead person. Hey, you're dead and gone, but life goes on, and look how well we're all eating.